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Yolaine Escande, Directrice-adjointe du Centre de recherches sur les arts et le langage CNRS
Thomas Charrier, urbaniste
Arnaud Esquerre, sociologue

As part of the museum’s exhibitions, the Conversations allowed us to address topics as diverse as discrimination against women, the future of our merchant cities or astrology, the increase of mega-fires, cultural perceptions of the horizon. The next Conversation proposes to share experiences of an infinite horizon with Bérénice Charriez, a skipper, and Philippe Ortoli, a film buff.

June 12, 8:30 PM The endless horizon at sea and in the cinema

Conversations: a format that invites thinkers to enrich the theme of an exhibition with a plurality of contemporary lighting. The conversation leaves plenty of room for discussion and then offers an illustrator to draw a summary.  It is preceded by a tour of the exhibition following the theme. Already welcomed at the museum: Thomas Charrier, Cécile Legrand, Olivier Dauvers, Elina Bonini, Daniel Kunth, Ary Gordien, Alban Richard, Arnaud Esquerre, Jérôme Lèbre, Joëlle Zask, Yolaine Escande, Eric Marion...

 

Drawn moments

Five cartoonists summarize the Conversations:

Leopold Prudon sketched the Chinese and Arab specificities of the horizon with Yolaine Escande and Eric Marion, on May 16, 2025.

Alice Dufay illustrated the exchange between Joelle Zask and Mathieu Lion about mega fires on October 2, 2024.

Julien Robic on the keywords which condition the Commodity Cities of the future according to Thomas Charrier, urban planner and Olivier Dauvers, specialist in mass retail, on June 28, 2024.

Livio Bernardo about astrology in the 21st century, as part of the exhibition The Children of Saturn. The persistent influence of astrology on our contemporary societies inspired his drawings (IG @livioetlaviemoderne), on December 8, 2023.

And in the spring of 2023, Maedusa (IG @maedusa_gorgon) was invited to create a synthesis of exchanges inspired by the figure of Medusa. Her synthetic notes allow to embrace, in one image, the main themes and ideas addressed: keywords, picto, drawings ....

 

Léopold Prudon: The horizon in Arab and Chinese cultures, May 16, 2025

© Leopold Prudon

Julien Robic : The merchant cities, 28 june 2024

© Julien Robic

Livio Bernardo : Astrology/Astronomy, december 2023

© Livio Bernardo

Maedusa for The frizzy hair, Immobility and Shame, 2023

© Cheveux politisés dessin de Maedusa réalisé à l'occasion de la Conversation Des serpents dans les cheveux #1 avec Ary Gordien, anthropologue, et Karine Le Petit, ethnologue, le 30 mai 2023 
© Quelle prise de tête ! dessin de Maedusa réalisé à l'occasion de la Conversation Des serpents dans les cheveux #1 avec Ary Gordien, anthropologue, et Karine Le Petit, ethnologue, le 30 mai 2023
© Eloge de l'immobilité, dessin de Maedusa réalisé à l'occasion de la Conversation Ce que nous fait l'immobilité #2 avec Jérôme Lèbre, philosophe, et Alban Richard, chorégraphe, le 9 juin 2023 

Read the communications

Some speakers make their written intervention available to you.

This is the case of Cécile Legrand, hypnotherapist and art therapist, who exchanged with Elena Bonini, a PhD student in comparative literature, about shame. See here: https://mba.caen.fr/exposition/sous-le-regard-de-meduse

The Conversations, October 2024 to June 2025 (page 33)