The "Folio" exhibition presents a selection of works gathered "around the book". These loans from the Frac Occitanie Montpellier question art, the relationship between the arts and the subject's relationship with the world.
The book is the central point around which the exhibition has been conceived, and the works chosen (photography, sculpture, installation, painting, artists' books) ask us about space, spaces: that of the book, the artistic object, mental space, the space of mediation of the book as well as the exhibition room.
Works by Jean-Adrien ARZILIER, Denise A. AUBERTIN, Julien AUDEBERT, Fiona BANNER, Nina CHILDRESS AUBERTIN, Julien AUDEBERT, Fiona BANNER, Nina CHILDRESS, Nicolas DAUBANES and Eric WATIER reveal multiple approaches to text and image, discourse and representation. The selection brings to light questions specific to art, from the conflict between text and image, poetry and painting, to the problem raised by the reproducibility of the work and its status, via the contemporary practice of appropriation or reuse, to intermediality in artistic practices.
The exhibition, conceived with a "de-disciplinary" didactic aim, stands at the confluence of the arts, engaging the viewer in the experience of encountering these works of contemporary art, questioning the conceptual or formal autonomy of the objects, and putting into perspective the theoretical links between language and representational practices.
The Cultural Space of the Faculty of Education of the University of Montpellier is a space dedicated to the arts and culture, a university exhibition space as well as an educational space. The "Folio" exhibition is thus seen as an object of study, a pedagogical support for questioning the arts, the work of art and mediation practices in our contemporary society, and thus contributes to the formation of the subject.
The "Folio" exhibition is linked to the " Mediations de la littérature de jeunesse en médiathèque et au musée"study days organized by Montpellier University's Faculty of Education and Montpellier's Paul Valéry University on March 15 and 16, 2022.
