Where the Day Begins, the paths to knowledge
by Madeleine Bourgois
LM Magazine
October 8, 2015
Where the day begins: here is a poetic title, punctuated by an enigmatic comma… The tone is set. We should not try to rationalize this exhibition, but rather accept to let ourselves be carried away by the memories and desires that it awakens in each of us. As part of lille3000 - Renaissance, the LaM has imagined a course with the air of a treasure hunt. In 160 works, Where the Day Begins, sheds light on what human emancipation owes to knowledge. Throughout the 12 chapters, from dusk to dawn, questions arise: by what means - religious, scientific, artistic - does the individual discover the world? Is he discovering himself? Are we able to only know him? To know us? Medieval drawings, a revisited cabinet of curiosities, contemporary paintings follow one another, playing on the visible and the immaterial, illusion and reflection ... At the bend of a video, Janine Antoni fascinates as a tightrope walker on the horizon line. Kandinsky imprints his hands on a canvas, like a child. at the exit, a telescope allows you to contemplate your own eye, like a final riddle addressed to the visitor.