Between June 2022 and September 2025, Frédéric Tovany, director of Château Rouge, a subsidised theatre in the town of Annemasse, will welcome photographer Coralie Sanson for an exploration of the venue's hidden and secret spaces. During several sessions, she will be accompanied by Frédéric Perret, the theatre's chief stage manager, as she ventures into areas that are not visible from the audience. She begins by exploring the walkways perched 17 m and 15 m above the stage of the main auditorium. This dizzying journey allows the photographer to access striking and unexpected graphic worlds. She then wanders among the projector ramps, cables, sound and lighting equipment, left on the floor at the end of the season, waiting to be refurbished before the next cultural season begins. It is a whole world that we would never suspect exists when, as mere spectators, we come to marvel at the shows put on by the artists and technical teams

Coralie Sanson wanted to shed light on this hidden world, which is always present when an artist creates a show, in a creative and poetic way, but also in a more documentary style. She was told the anecdote of ‘the servant’, a light placed behind the scenes as a luminous and mystical symbol protecting the artists, the creators of live shows, the sound and lighting technicians, the soul of the theatre, in short. It is a way of paying tribute to the invisible objects and people who work behind the curtain, sometimes at impressive heights, to continue to give artists the opportunity to create, invent and, above all, share. Coralie Sanson is an artist driven by aesthetic curiosity and a desire to reveal some of the hidden mechanisms behind the magic of the stage. Above all, she is convinced of the absolute necessity of maintaining access to culture as a fundamental right.