Office of Investigation of the Sacred

Combining artistic and anthropological approaches with the most From the esoteric to the more institutional, all these actors have explored together for more than two years the “disarticulated territories of the sacred”. The book, which appears on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition organized at the same time at the Collège des Bernardins and the Grandes-Serres de Pantin in 2022, is neither a exhibition catalogue nor an exhaustive collection of academic texts, but a hybrid proposal for those interested in new forms of spirituality and to new forms in general, whether they be clothing, video, installation, objects or bodies. It gives insight into the state of this subject at a given moment and demonstrates a generation of artists who no longer see collapse as inevitable but as a link to think about the end of a world. And which, to build the next one, claims to "cosmize" thought and the earth and draw a new horizon to new forms of solidarity. Contributions by Aniara Rodado (artist), Claire Barré (screenwriter and novelist), Marie Voignier (artist), Alice Brygo and Balthazar Heisch (artists), Céline du Chéné (director and author), Alain Dellanegra and Kaori Kinoshita (artists), Meris Angioletti (artist), David Sendrez (doctor in theology), Collective Les Froufrous de Lilith, Simon Ripoll-Hurier (artist), Eric de Thoisy (architecture, founder of the SCAU agency), Valérie Mréjen (artist), Emmanuelle Luciani (curator and artistic director of Southway Studio), Jeanne Mercier (curator of the exhibition). Works by François-Alexandre Monfort, Alice Lejeune, Kelly Eng & Marie Piplard, Clémence Perera Vétiillard, Louise Fauroux, Bianca Dacosta, Auriane Robert, Emma Tholot, Esther Denis, Rémi Coignec, Brieuc Schieb, Juliette Ayrault, Ariane Jouhaud, Isabella Aurora, Eloïse Molinié.