Round-table discussion: "The urgency of the line: drawing and watercolours in conflicts and courts".

Wednesday 14 May 2025 | 14h-16h | Mucem, fort Saint-Jean - MucemLab

In the 16th century, travelling artists set off with their watercolour boxes to produce the first visual reports of Mediterranean landscapes and populations, in Italy, Palestine or Egypt. Today, photography and video have not completely replaced this artistic technique: in constrained situations where photography and filming are not possible, such as during trials, in prison, or even in certain situations of war, drawing and watercolour allow artists and draughtsmen to invent ways of representing the immediate. At this round table, researchers and artists are invited to reflect on how these artistic techniques can be adapted to situations of violence and constraint, based on their own work and creations. What is the right distance to adopt in order to bear witness to the instantaneous, between in situ representation and evocation based on memory? This round-table discussion is in keeping with the museum's ethnographic tradition of combining the study of techniques and know-how with the viewpoints of contemporary artists.

Speeches :

• Bayan Abu Nahlavisual artist
• Najah Albukaïa painter, engraver and draughtsman who graduated from the Damascus Fine Arts School
• Noëlle Herrenschmidtwatercolour reporter and legal cartoonist
• Anne-Valérie DulacLecturer in Elizabethan Studies at Sorbonne University

Moderated by: Anne-Valérie Dulac

Coordinated by Adélie Chevée (MESOPOLHIS) and Anne-Valérie Dulac

Free admission

Registration recommended at mucemlab@mucem.org

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