november 20 - December 21, 2018 [extended until January 31, 2019]
Foyerdu Collège de France
Opening November 20, 6:30-8:30 pm
L'Atlas en mouvement is the final presentation of the work produced by Mathieu Pernot as part of his residency at the Collège de France. Several themes are addressed in encyclopedic form in this exhibition, which has been built up thanks to the many contributions of individuals, migrants and refugees, met by Mathieu Pernot this year. Astronomy, cartography, the history of writing, botany, anatomy and habitat are used as reference points which, juxtaposed with one another, reveal a cartography of humanity's common knowledge as well as the singular experiences of people who have had to flee their homelands.
Planets are in perpetual motion, animal species migrate freely, plants swarm and invade landscapes, while some of humanity finds itself constrained and prevented from moving. Yet these migrants share a human condition that unites us all, and contribute to the development of knowledge they have sometimes helped to create. They also carry the heritage of ancient cultures, traces of which can be found in numerous objects preserved in Western museums, which bear witness to this past, but which also tell the story of our present through "stories of war and rupture, memory and amnesia, blurred lines, captures and captures that destabilize more than they reassure. [1]"
This exhibition is the starting point for an atlas in motion that reverses the point of view on the issue of migrants. From the anonymous, anxiety-provoking subjects of media time, they become named individuals in the long history of knowledge. Cetatlas thus offers a new perspective in the tradition of encyclopedic knowledge put to the test of contemporary migration issues.
The exhibition can be viewed freely when the rooms are open for lectures.
[1] SAVOY, Bénédicte. Objects of desire, desire for objects: Opening lecture delivered on March 30, 2017: Objets du désir, désir d'objets, Paris, Collège de France, 2017. Available online: https: //books.openedition.org/cdf/5024
