“…Again, the ambiguity between interiority and exposure, private and public is underlined, an ambiguity that interconnects with the problematic relationship between the artist and the socio-political establishment in which that very artist asserts himself through his atelier. The example of Picard's Maison d'art is a case in point in this respect, which, as a hybrid space, 'propose de présenter oeuvres et objets dans un intérieur familial' (Brogniez 2019). An increasingly subjectivist 'castel du rêve', the studio, like other private places, especially in the context of Les XX and La Libre Esthétique, also becomes an important setting for the organisation of exhibitions.…”