Créer un pacte avec les animaux ? Réflexion avec Jean-Christophe Bailly

A free cultural talk on animals and the threat hanging over them, held as part of Gloria Friedmann's exhibition 'Entre deux vertiges'.

Since the 1980s, the sculptures, installations and 'tableaux vivants' of the artist Gloria Friedmann have placed the animal figure at the centre of her work. In her exhibition 'Entre deux vertiges' at Transfo - Emmaüs Solidarité, however, animals have almost disappeared.

Writer, poet and playwright Jean-Christophe Bailly has written, among other works, 'Le parti pris des animaux' (Bourgois, 2013). He is also a long-standing friend and a subtle connoisseur of the artist.

On Tuesday 17 November at 7.30pm, Transfo is hosting a moment of reflection on our relationship with animals, which are increasingly threatened in their existence. What would the world be without them, without the access to the living world that they offer us?

'The threat hanging over them demands that a pact, a genuine peace treaty, be created and consolidated. The first movement, the inaugural gesture towards this direction, is that of the attention we must pay to their forms of life. Alongside them, alongside the countless ways in which they have built their existence, in harmony with what surrounds them, the world, our world, grows larger. Animals do not speak, but they are our silent masters.' Jean-Christophe Bailly.