In Marseille, a city placed under the protection of Notre-Dame de la Garde—an emblematic figure known as the “Bonne Mère”—the subject feels almost self-evident. Yet far from the clichés of the protective and ever-present Mediterranean mother, the Mucem exhibition adopts the plural form to better reveal its contradictions and richness. An ambitious journey spanning four millennia of history, from Antiquity to contemporary art.
