The ‘Maison des Ailleurs’

Rimbaud was to make some amazing journeys. He thought only of leaving, to flee the Ardennes town which at the time was in the midst of an industrial revolution, and his mother’s home village, Roche. His travels were to take him to the four corners of the earth, to the Dutch East Indies and to Jakarta… He worked in Greece, joined the Dutch colonial army only to desert three months later, and went as far as Ethiopia. Thanks to lighting effects along with video shows and photographs, visitors can enter this world of travel, strangely sensing a certain tension in this virtual world: the modernity of Rimbaud makes itself felt, naturally.