L’Univers sans l’Homme, les arts en quête d’autres mondes
The exhibition
Before Turner, there was no such thing as fog in London, said Oscar Wilde. By visualising the catastrophe, doesn't art contribute to making it more real and more conscious?
That's what we can hope for, but we must always bear in mind a risk: art sometimes participates in the aestheticization of the catastrophe, making it a theme. And in this case, things are, in my opinion, rather ambivalent. Look at how the environment and ecological alarm have become ultra-hegemonic commonplaces in current art in just a few years. This is a sign of genuine concern; it is also a new conformism. And when there is conformism, voices no longer carry the same weight. Worse: one can even take a dislike to a repetition that no longer surprises.
Extract from the interview between Thomas Schlesser and Emmanuel Daydé published in the N°106 of the magazine Art Absolument. Published on 17 May 2023.
That's what we can hope for, but we must always bear in mind a risk: art sometimes participates in the aestheticization of the catastrophe, making it a theme. And in this case, things are, in my opinion, rather ambivalent. Look at how the environment and ecological alarm have become ultra-hegemonic commonplaces in current art in just a few years. This is a sign of genuine concern; it is also a new conformism. And when there is conformism, voices no longer carry the same weight. Worse: one can even take a dislike to a repetition that no longer surprises.
Extract from the interview between Thomas Schlesser and Emmanuel Daydé published in the N°106 of the magazine Art Absolument. Published on 17 May 2023.
When
13/05/2023 - 17/09/2023