The radical Léa Lublin

"I knew Léa Lublin in 1980. I had already glimpsed the radical nature of her work, but it was she who told me about her participation in the Salon de Mai 1968, where she exhibited for several days with her son, who was still a baby. In 1983, she presented her exhibition Le Strip-tease de l’Enfant-Dieu at the Yvon Lambert Gallery, which demonstrated the erotic character of representations of the Virgin and Child in Renaissance painting. Meanwhile, we had looked at the interviews she recorded as part of her artistic activity conceived as "theoretical practice". At that time, she put questions to artists and intellectuals like 'Is art a symptom, illusion or merchandise?' – questions to which we have often come back since, and which are still highly topical." Catherine Francblin (art critic, member of the management committee of Art Press).

Film show/talk presented by Catherine Francblin, as part of the Labex Arts-H2H "Cinéma/vidéo, art et politique en France depuis 1968: dispositifs, archives, numérique"/In partnerhsip with the BnF and with the collaboration of Nicolas Lublin and Anne-Marie Duguet. Free admission.