Instead of trying to inventory a collection built up over the last 15 years, Annette Haudiquet, the exhibition curator and Director of MuMa has chosen to pay a subtle homage to the city and port of Le Havre as a source of inspiration. This group of works seem to belong to the register of fiction rather than being objective topographical records or paeans to Le Havre's modern architecture.

The 17 photographers and artists featured in the exhibition have been quick to seize on the wealth of material offered by the city and its margins (the beach, seen as a neighbourhood in its own right, and the suburbs), interstices and halfway stages in space and time (such as the Place Danton under contruction), its private, inhabited spaces and its residents and temporary visitors. Collectively, their differing views of Le Havre invite us to dream up our own imaginary city and to hold onto what Louis Aragon, the author of Le Paysan de Paris, called "the sense of the marvellous in the everyday".

An exhibition/display in black and white and colour
Paintings and drawings by Yves Bélorgey
Photographs by Gabriele Basilico, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Charles Decorps, Véronique Ellena, Lucien Hervé, Matthias Koch, Manuela Marques, Sabine Meier, Corinne Mercadier, Olivier Mériel, Bernard Plossu, Anne-Lise Seusse and Xavier Zimmermann
Videos by Rebecca Digne, Christophe Guérin and Dana Levy