Conference, The Body in Ritual

This conference proposes a reflection on the way in which the mask and the body resonate, drawing on intimate memory, personal history and traces of the past to bring out a transfigured identity. The ritual then becomes a space of passage: between the individual and the collective, between the inert object and the living presence, between memory and creation.

Based on photographs from the collection, the meeting will address the notions of ritual, transmission, symbolic gesture and the expressive power of the body, revealing how contemporary art can reactivate ancestral forms to question our relationship to identity and the sacred.