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Thomas Hirschhorn and political scientist Laurent Jeanpierre will be in conversation on the occasion of the exhibition Eternal Ruins at Galerie Chantal Crousel.

Laurent Jeanpierre is currently Senior Lecturer in political sciences at University Paris 8, Vincennes - Saint-Denis, after having taught in a higher school of artistic education. For the past two decades, part of his work develops an approach of art through political language. Furthermore, he has worked on Simone Weil’s corpus, specifically during the last years of her life spend in the United States and England. Among his publications: In Girum. Les leçons politiques des ronds-points, Paris, La Découverte, 2019 ; Jacques Rancière, La méthode de l’égalité. Entretien avec Laurent Jeanpierre et Dork Zabunyan, Paris, Bayard, 2012 ; « À quoi pense l’art contemporain ? », Critique, 759-760, August-September 2010 (with Élie During);  In Actu. De l’expérimental dans l’art, Dijon, Les Presses du Réel, coll. Fabula, 2009 (with Élie During, Christophe Kihm, Dork Zabunyan).