Looking for the edge" exhibition

End-of-residency exhibition from October 12 to December 15, 2017, Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Opening Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 12:30 p.m.
BU Sciences, Triolet campus
Arriving at the UM in September 2016, visual artist Armelle Caron explored the "graphic" theme through meetings and exchanges with UM students and staff, particularly at the Faculty of Science.
Looking for the edge presents the various plastic approaches chosen by the artist to explore this theme in the light of the UM's training and research disciplines. More generally, she has poetically and simply hijacked the university's pre-existing materials, such as the diagrams and drawings used in courses, campus maps, etc. These works are also placed under the sign of questioning: what makes art? What are the points of connection between artists and scientists?
Armelle Caron offers us "a survey of what makes a drawing without first being a plastic question": "technical drawings (...) but also maps, diagrams, graphs". Exploring the contours of these categories offers some answers and raises just as many questions...
See the interview with Armelle Caron
Read the article about the artist
Artist's website