A graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Glasgow School of Art, Thu Van Tran was born in 1979 in Ho Chi Minh City and fled with her family to France in 1981. Marked by this exile, the artist has created a body of work that includes photographs, drawings, films, sculptures and installations that she brings together in situ to form a grand narrative that raises questions about our ability to remember the history, rituals and legacies of countries and nations.

Dance and visual arts

Paris-based Americans, Gerard & Kelly have been collaborating since 2003 on performance, video and installation, among other formats. Having studied visual arts, literature and gender studies, Gerard and Kelly use conceptual strategies in art and dance to address broader themes of memory, history, sexuality and identity. Their reflections are often embedded in a particular architectural space, engaging the socio-cultural and political antecedents of the site in their work.

Screening of short films by six student artists or graduates of the School: Théo Audoire and Lova Karlson, Emma Boudon, Julie Coulon, Isabella Hin, Valentin Pinet.

Théo Audoire and Lova Karlson - Ovan Gruvan (13'34)

The fourth session will look at the issues raised by this key moment in the life of a student, i.e. entry to the school. Alice Thomine-Berrada and Emmanuelle Quilez will trace the evolution of the entrance exam from the regulations and Lucie Lachenal will show how this evolution is manifested in the students' matriculation records. This historical perspective will be confronted with the testimony of the artist Anna Oarda, who graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2022, concerning her entry to the School. 

Meeting with the artist Gaëlle Choisne, whose work, conceived as a prism of shared ecosystems, reflects the complexities of the world we live in.
In dialogue with Fabrice Bourlez and Madeleine Planeix-Crocker, Gaëlle Choisne will reveal the materials, myths and muses that affect her work.

 
In the framework of the Troubles, Dissidences and Aesthetics Chair, supported by the Thom Browne House.

Crédit photo : © Antoine Fernandez
 

White, history of a colour.

Colonial framing: What equivocal relationships has modern photography had with past or contemporary 'other' cultures?

Slow down or perish, the economics of degrowth.

Timothée Parrique is a researcher in ecological economics at Lund University in Sweden. A specialist in degrowth, he is the author of Ralentir ou périr, l'économie de la décroissance (2022), a book based on his doctoral thesis, The political economy of degrowth (2019).

From vernacular photography to the museum.

Clément Chéroux is currently Director of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris. 
Chief Curator of the Department of Photography at MoMA, New York between 2020 and 2022, he was previously Curator at the Department of Photography at SFMOMA, San Francisco (2017-2020) and Curator and Head of the Cabinet of Photography at Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris (2013-2016).

Clément Chéroux dialogues with Christian Joschke, art historian and professor at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.