Literary journey through Central Asia" exhibition from June 2 to 12

Pôle des langues et civilisations
65 rue des Grands Moulins 75013
Auditorium Gallery
From Friday, June 2 to Monday, June 12, 2023
Exhibition opens June 2 at 2pm
Varnishing Friday, June 2 at 6pm
Open June 3 to 12, 8am to 10pm

Summer 2021, cartoonist Sophie Imren leaves to join her friend Noémie Cadeau in Bishkek, where she is doing research at the French Institute for Central Asian Studies. Sophie brings back from this first Kyrgyz trip a wealth of graphic work, including travel diaries, comic strips and ink drawings. Fascinated by Central Asian art, Sophie made a second trip to Bishkek in September 2022.
During this second stay, she mounted three exhibitions in the Kyrgyz capital, at the Musée des Beaux-Arts alongside renowned painters and at the Alliance française for a solo show. With Noémie, who has returned to work on her thesis, they set off for Uzbekistan, from Bukhara to Tashkent, in the footsteps of Soviet Central Asian writers. From their literary travels in Central Asia came this project for an exhibition in France, halfway between research, graphic documentation and artistic creation.

This exhibition is in conjunction with the projection of the documentary "L'amiral Tchoumakov" scheduled for June 2 at 6:30pm in the auditorium of the Pôle des langues et civilisations.

Contacts: sophieimren@free.fr; noemie.cadeau@univ-st-etienne.fr; catherine.poujol@inalco.fr