Self-portrait” exhibition by Thomas Clerc

"Who am I?" The question is as serious as it is unreasonable. But first, who is speaking to ask "who am I? A void, no doubt. Or perhaps an absence. A ghost, as André Breton would say. The king, as Louis Marin would say. The madman, as Shakespeare would say. Between essays, reveries, rules of the game, glosses and other deletions, it is indeed in the mirror of literature that the most novel forms have been invented to respond to the metaphysical enigma. From Montaigne to Rousseau, from Leiris to Barthes, the self-portrait, far from being a simple biographical account, is a literary genre that has proved its worth. Some even see it as the secret of all research, even the most scientific, because it is always the subject who chooses, organises, interprets, in a word, reads. Far from the dogma of supposed impersonality, it is up to modernity, whatever the era, to recognise that a subject is never anonymous... Thomas Clerc ventures in this direction.

Exhibition open on public holidays. Opening on 21 May 2026 from 6.30pm. The opening will be followed by a performance by Thomas Clerc - reservation@imec-archives.com

In partnership with Région Normandie, DRAC Normandie, Twisto and La Trombinette.
Illustration: Worker's mask created by Amleto Sartori for Gabriel Cousin's L'Officina, directed by Jacques Lecoq, 1951. Gabriel Cousin Archives/Imec.

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