“The Memory of Walls” A photographic and poetic investigation by Marc Dantan

The University of Montpellier has many remarkable buildings, some of which are protected as historic monuments, linked to its teaching and research activities in a wide range of scientific fields: these include the historic Faculty of Medicine building, the Institute of Botany, and the Institute of Biology.

With a view to preserving documentation of these buildings, particularly those undergoing restoration and renovation work, a photographic campaign was commissioned from Marc Dantan in 2022. It turns out that these photographs, far from serving a purely commemorative purpose, offer a poetic perspective on spaces that are little known to the general public. The exhibition offers visitors the opportunity to share this sensory experience at the Orangerie du Jardin des Plantes, itself an iconic building of the University of Montpellier and a listed historic monument.