Armand Jalut

Deliberately ironic, this exhibition aims to reflect a priori seductive of our world by presenting the work of artists inspired by the feline figure. “Cat People” - whose title refers to Jacques Tourneur's 1942 film - attempts to illustrate the relationship described by Jacques Derrida in what the animal reveals of the human. How do we project ourselves, how do we approach the other through the domestic figure of the cat? Cats reassure us - hence the upsurge in videos of cute little cats on social networks - but they can also worry us, symbolically reflecting the ills that plague our Western societies in crisis.

The exhibition "Cat People. Des artistes et des chats" tackles this complex bond that binds us to cats through various thematic entries such as anthropomorphism, the stray cat, animal ergonomics, kitsch...

Curator: Marc Bembekoff