What

En Jeu explores the links between art, sport and community education. This co-creation project invites pupils to engage with the theme of sport, paying particular attention to its societal dimension.
Initiated by the artist and designer Gabriel Fontana, this travelling project first came to life at La Ferme du Buisson in 2024, in collaboration with schools in Seine-et-Marne.
A second phase of this project was organised in 2026 in partnership with Les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie Toulouse, schools in the Occitanie region.
For each of these editions, the project ran over a six-month period during which the pupils took part in a series of workshops.

How

Together, they devised new models of society, both utopian and dystopian.
Through these workshops, the pupils invented new sports and designed trophies and sporting slogans for their teams.
The project always concludes with a tournament that invites secondary school pupils to test, choreograph and put these new models of society into practice.
The Toulouse edition of En Jeu 2026 will culminate in an exhibition at Les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie Toulouse.

Why

En Jeu challenges social norms and mechanisms of oppression within the realm of sports, offering a critical examination of the values traditionally promoted by athletic competitions. The project aspires to foster empathy and inclusion by reimagining our relationship with sports and, by extension, our relationship with the broader world—ultimately proposing new ways of building community.