Lecture by Marie-Laure Bernadac

The thought of Jacques Lacan is along with that of Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze, essential to understanding our contemporaneity. Yet, while tributes and exhibitions have already considered most of these intellectual figures, Lacan's thought remains unexplored to date, on a museum level, even though he maintained a very strong relationship with works of art. Lacan was closely involved with the art and artists of the XXth century, and in his teaching never ceased to draw on the art of all times.

"Lacan, the exhibition: when the artist precedes the psychoanalyst.", held at the Centre-Pompidou-Metz, shows the works he collected or commented on, the artists who drew inspiration from his thought, and the works that echo his concepts.

Marie-Laure Bernadac is Honorary General Curator of Heritage. She has worked at the Musée Picasso - Paris, at the Centre Georges Pompidou as director of the graphic art cabinet, at the Capc musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux and at the Musée du Louvre as head of contemporary art.
She has written numerous books on Picasso, Louise Bourgeois, Annette Messager; curated the exhibitions Feminin masculin, Le sexe de l'art, Présumés Innocents, Picasso et les Maîtres, Leiris & Co., William Kentridge, Cindy Sherman, Picasso poète, etc.