Manger les images

Eating a picture - what a strange idea! And yet we've been eating them up ever since antiquity, particularly in Europe and the Mediterranean. So how do we explain our attitude to them? Why incorporate an image, taking it into oneself at the risk of destroying it, rather than wisely observing it from a distance?




What functions can be attributed to these gestures, to this very particular experience of images? What does such behavior reveal about ourselves and our societies? Eating a figurative object allows us to house within ourselves that which will heal, protect and transform us, but also offer us the means to learn, resist, play, dream, and participate in the life of dedicated communities. This exhibition will confront the practice with the diversity of imaginaries (religious, philosophical, literary, artistic, political) that support it, in a journey from metaphorical incorporation to the actual ingestion of images.



Artists Nicolas Boulard, Bernardino Campi, Alonso Cano, David Cronenberg, Honoré Daumier, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Michel Journiac, Dennis Oppenheim, Meret Oppenheim, Brett Ratner...