Exposition “Portrait d’un camarade de classe”

“Every portrait lies at the confluence of dream and reality” Georges PEREC

The “Portrait d’un Camarade de Classe” exhibition is an artistic exploration that questions the objectivity of our relationship with reality. It examines how the artist’s subjectivity transforms the objectivity of representation, how the work bears the traces of the creator’s subjectivity. Indeed, these works – exhibited here – are the result of an intimate dialogue between the “creator” of the work and the “model” of the creation, each questioning the function of the other in the creation of the work, each modifying the perception of the other in order to transform our perception of reality.

The purpose of this intimate dialogue between artist and model was to reveal the model’s true identity, hidden behind appearances. Thanks to it, the students were able to go beyond physical appearance by listening to their model’s personal story. In this way, the student-artist delves into the other’s inner world, discovering the model’s interwoven thoughts and emotions, which echo their own personal narrative and emotions. The device of mirroring and echoing enables the artist to draw the other while exhibiting himself. It thus becomes a means of self-expression. The work of art is the product of emotional echoes between two subjectivities.

Art is transformed into a shared process of self and other revelation. The work of art is then an exhibition of the subjectivity of the other and of oneself, a subjective and shared unveiling of which the work of art is the effort and the result. This complicit exchange made it possible to create both a personal and emotional representation of oneself using one’s model, and vice versa… Every stroke, every detail of the works on display is the fruit of collaboration, the result of a creative dialogue during which the students were in turn: artist and model.

This exhibition is not just an artistic presentation, but a living testimony to the need for the presence of the other, to the other’s ability to reveal ourselves in spite of ourselves, to elevate us to a better knowledge of ourselves.