Interpretations of the Exhibition with Frédéric Lordon

Activity
11 June 2026, 19h | Lecture | Lecture room

Open and free activity with limited capacity
Language: French

 

Open lecture of the Santa Mònica collective learning and research programme Situations (making) #10, in the framework of the exhibition The Assault of Illusion

In this session, Frédéric Lordon will offer their own reading of The Assault of Illusion, connecting the works, mechanisms and strategies of representation that the exhibition proposes with the central debates in their field of research and practice.

The readings linked to the lecture are also inscribed in Situations (making) #10, Santa Mònica's collective learning and research programme, aimed at critically analysing how cultural devices configure illusions that shape our desire and our idea of reality.

This proposal forms part of the exhibition's public programme, which under the title Interpretations of the exhibition brings together seven contemporary voices to deepen and expand the questions raised by the project.


With the participation of Frédéric Lordon


Frédéric Lordon
(France, 1962), French economist and philosopher and director of research at the CNRS at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique (CESSP) in Paris, is a professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and a regular contributor to Le Monde diplomatique.
 

The Assault of Illusion

An exhibition about art, illusion, deception and power. Featuring around twenty local and international artists, it offers a critical journey through various artistic techniques that have shaped our desires and our sense of reality. In the era of deepfakes and artificial intelligence, can art help us unveil these mechanisms of manipulation?