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See with your mind as well as with your eyes

The career of feminist theorist and filmmaker Laura Mulvey has contributed to profoundly transforming our relationship with images. Since the 1970s, the theorist of the "male gaze" has continued to work on behalf of a mobilised gaze, conscious of the asymmetries between genders, asymmetries that structure the history of images, their reception and the ways in which they are produced.

On 11 March 2011, Japan was shaken by the Fukushima disaster of unprecedented magnitude. What have we learned from this inextricably natural and nuclear disaster?

To discuss its echoes and resonances beyond Japan and "from our window", philosopher Clélia Zernik, curator Élodie Royer, researcher in film theory and aesthetics Élise Domenach, and writer Michaël Ferrier, who share a deep knowledge of the Japanese art scenes with which they maintain a long-standing dialogue, look back on this event and the upheavals it has caused.

Faire avec : mes associations

"Faire avec" here means both making do with a context and not doing things alone, but with others. These two dimensions structure this encounter with Pauline Curnier Jardin, whose work combines performance, cinema and visual arts, and is based on collective practices, collaborations and ritual forms (processions, carnivals, films).

L’esprit de l’atelier brings together 16 artists trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris in Djamel Tatah's studio, where he taught for fifteen years. The exhibition focuses on a "textbook case": the unique functioning of the Beaux-Arts de Paris studios.

Based on daily dialogue between an artist-teacher and his students, this workshop system does not aim to transmit a particular style, but rather to support each individual in developing their own practice. Djamel Tatah has thus trained a generation of artists who are now renowned for the power of their work and the diversity of their trajectories.

Bringing together more than 120 works, both recent and produced for the exhibition, L'esprit de l'atelier showcases a wide range of practices: painting, drawing, sculpture, weaving and installation. Between figuration and abstraction, reality and fiction, the works explore inner worlds nourished by multiple references, from the old masters to contemporary cultures.

What connects these artists is not a common aesthetic, but a shared experience of training and mentorship. The exhibition thus bears witness to the richness and diversity of the voices emerging from Djamel Tatah's studio, now fully established on the contemporary art scene.

With the artists:
Kenia Almaraz Murillo
Raphaëlle Benzimra
Djabril Boukhenaïssi
Tristan Chevillard
Fabien Conti
Mathilde Denize
Léo Dorfner
Clémence Gbonon
Bilal Hamdad
Nina Jayasuriya
Dora Jeridi
David Mbuyi
Zélie Nguyen
Pierre Pauze
Blaise Schwartz
Rayan Yasmineh

Signing event for the launch of the book Claude Rutault, La Marelle, entre la toile de la même couleur que le mur et la marelle.

See with your mind as well as with your eyes

Metahaven’s work between design, filmmaking, textile, installation, and writing has been thoroughly linked with the internet and its geopolitics, pairing research with experimental, exuberant aesthetics.

On 11 March 2011, Japan was shaken by the Fukushima disaster of unprecedented magnitude. What have we learned from this inextricably natural and nuclear disaster?

Rereading by Françoise d'Eaubonne of canonised works

Faire avec : mes associations

L’esprit de l’atelier brings together 16 artists trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris in Djamel Tatah's studio, where he taught for fifteen years. The exhibition focuses on a "textbook case": the unique functioning of the Beaux-Arts de Paris studios.