Open every day From November to March: 10 a.m. - 4.30 p.m. From April to October: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.	!!! Attention: this exhibition is over. Chantal Michel - Photographs and video installations From the 22nd of January until the 15th of May 2011 Chantal Michel, fairy of contemporary art, increases her profile and role games in a new exhibition for the Castle of Gruyères. In thirty or so photographs and video installations, her dreamlike world reveals subtle affinities with the romantic spirit of the site. The artist, unlike anyone else, has the secret to creating a gallery of characters who make themselves at home with calibrated poses and mutinous turns. Almost tangible, they muddle the border between fiction and reality, creating a decoration in historic rooms, catalysing small and large imaginary stories. Born in Bern in 1968, Chantal Michel studied at her native town's School of Visual Arts, then at the Academy of Art in Karlsruhe. Stimulated by the cinematic experiments of Bruce Nauman, the American precursor of Body Art, Michel adapts herself to the domain of the media and of the body as if living material. In her photography and her videos as well as in her performances in almost-weightlessness, she becomes a plastic surgeon of herself and a fine explorer of the sensory space, the social and the symbolic. Her poetics of enchantment and of diversion also play on the textures on the edges of our senses and the chromatic staging. The creator is about to leave Schloss Kiesen near Bern where, for three years, she has been developing an experience of total art and an opening to the public. From one castle to another, the exhibition in Gruyères is an interesting transitional step for the investigator of emblematic places that is Chantal Michel.