Mythology - a set of myths linked to a particular civilization and/or religion - has, since ancient times, offered the world a host of glittering heroes and tales subject to the variations of succeeding eras. Since then, artists in all parts of the world have constantly rewritten and reinvented these myths, re-evaluating their philosophical, political, aesthetic and mystical significance. Conveyed by industrialized entertainment - music, cinema, video games, television, sport - a different form of contemporary mythology has emerged. Its heroes have become the idols of the present day. If we can already question the values embodied by these new models, "the idol makes the visible, which is its whole being, an end in itself. It stops the gaze that plunges into it and forbids it to go any further", deciphers Suzanne Saïd (Two names for the image in ancient Greek: idol and icon). Objects of collective desire and projection, the intensive circulation of images and information on the Internet has consolidated their status as excluding models, devoid of altruistic ambition: a lark. To distance ourselves from this factory of questionable signifiers, this exhibition plunges us into five dream worlds. Five mysterious cartographies. Five distinct modes of operation. None of the proposed universes exists in multiples, but each questions the relationship with the other, the meaning of the sacred, and carries within it the idea of its own transcendence. Five artists formulate their art in the classic manner of mythographers, narrating the adventures of their Pantheon of the intimate and the sentimental: a mirror of the soul. Far from reducing our aspirations to a mere appearance that exists only in its own image, the art on display in "Nouvelles Idoles, Nouveaux Mondes" reveals our system of conditioned consumption, and calls for a reversal of data: let's remain masters of our imagination, for its capacity to shape reality! "Related to beings that were supposed to be endowed with a life analogous to that of man, translated into an idiom where every word spoke to the eyes, the spectacles of Nature appeared to be the acts of an immense drama, whose characters, divine in origin, were similar to us in heart." Michel Bréal, Mélanges de mythologie et de linguistique). Text Anne Richard, HEY! exhibitions curator