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La Falaise Art Centre Celebrates its 10th Anniversary with Zad Moultaka

In 2025, La Falaise Art Centre celebrates its tenth anniversary. Housed in the former chapel of the White Penitent priests, in the heart of the village of Cotignac, this unique space has been a place for openness and resonance for a decade, welcoming all forms of contemporary creation—painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, installations, and hybrid arts.

To mark this milestone, a special exhibition is dedicated to Zad Moultaka, from June 28th to October 25th. The artist presents Oro Lucem, a visual and sound installation created especially for the art centre.

« The work transforms. Its path is unpredictable and has a thousand forks in the road. To embrace it is to let go of the burden of what we believe ourselves to be, and to lose ourselves. »
Oro Lucem — literally praying to the light — marks the culmination of a triptych initiated by the artist with Oro Tenebris (praying to the darkness) and then Oro Terram (praying to the earth). These are three stages, like so many invitations to explore the deep layers of the human soul, in a quest for an inner space and a forgotten spirituality. This work ignites matter, it summons light as much as shadow, and gives birth to unexpected forms, in a clarity that is sometimes dark, sometimes dazzling. All of this unfolds at the centre of some thirty works, brought together to create a total experience.

Zad Moultaka, from music to visual arts.

Born in 1967 in Lebanon, Zad Moultaka began playing the piano as well as painting at the age of five. He moved to Paris in 1984 and was awarded First Prize at the Conservatoire National Supérieur in 1989. However, in 1993, he abandoned his performing career to devote himself fully to musical composition and the visual arts. Since then, his transdisciplinary work—combining installation, painting, video, and photography—has been exhibited worldwide: at the Centre Pompidou Metz, the Institut du Monde Arabe, the Galerie Tanit (Beirut and Munich), Cromwell Place in London, and at the Venice Biennale. In 2021, he was selected by Louis Vuitton to design a trunk for the brand’s 200th anniversary.

His artistic approach is grounded in a dual foundation: rigorous training in Western musical composition combined with a deep resonance with his Mediterranean roots. This fertile tension gives rise to a unique language: at once spiritual, sensory, and deeply embodied. Among these numerous accolades there is the SACEM Claude Larrieu Prize in 2007 and the Critics’ Prize for Best Musical Creation in 2017 for UM Moteur Souverain de Toutes Choses. His works have been performed worldwide by prestigious institutions: Radio France, the Opéra national du Rhin, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Musicatreize, and the Sveriges Radios Symfoniorchester.
De Profundis I, 2024, Huile, Brou de Noix, Feuille de Métal sur toile, 194X130
De Profundis VII, 2024, Huile, Brou de Noix, Feuille de Métal sur toile, 100X70
De Profundis VIII, 2024, Huile, Brou de Noix, Feuille de Métal sur toile, 80X60
Audi Celum IV, 2024 Huile, Acrylique, Brou de noix, Feuille de métal, 100X70
With Oro Lucem, Zad Moultaka offers much more than a work: it is a passage, an enigma, an inner journey. At the heart of the La Falaise Art Centre, some thirty other creations brought together to form a coherent and moving whole. This is an exhibition not to be missed, to celebrate 10 years of art and poetry, and to allow yourself to be transformed—if only for a moment.

Centre d’art La Falaise

5, cours Gambetta, 83570 Cotignac

Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 12.30pm and 2.30pm to 6pm

Full price: 4€

Concession: 2€ (for students, disabled people, jobseekers and RSA recipients, on presentation of proof of entitlement)

Free admission for children and teenagers up to the age of 15

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