After having inaugurated the pianistic happening in its station halls leaving a piano at the disposal of its users, the SNCF embellishes its reception area by perpetuating the programming of exhibitions to make art accessible to its travelers. Karine Saporta, French choreographer and polymorphous artist exposes until March 31, 2019 his photographs in the large lobby of the station Caen. The portrait ball is an exhibition commissioned for the Normandy Impressionist Festival by the city of Ouistreham and which has been presented in various tourist sites in Lower Normandy.

Men and women of Norman origin participated in a workshop with the talented choreographer to lend themselves to the staging of portraits borrowed from a lively theatricality. In this portrait ball, all the accessories of the charismatic character of the opera scene dress these "performers" of everyday life: ornamentation of finery, complexion of "Lily", exuberant hair or colored with rice powder, etc ...

The portrait ball parodies the customs of the aristocratic classes of the monarchical era of the Enlightenment: the desire for ennoblement through the use of the white paint called in the eighteenth century ceruse, statuary aesthetics, dramatic expressions, etc. .

Karine Saporta gives radiance and grandeur to the faces she likes the time of a meeting in the studio.