Art by Translation

AbT is a research and exhibition program initiated by École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy and École Supérieure d’Art et de Design TALM Angers organized by Maud Jacquin and Sébastien Pluot, the program’s founding directors, in collaboration with the artist Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil. It is supported by the French Ministry of Culture and collaborates with a host of international academic and art institutions.

AbT offers an experimental platform allowing projects to develop organically in various contexts and in different forms: artworks, exhibitions, study sessions with the AbT fellows and art school students, publications, and symposia with invited lecturers. Its model breaks with the classical “research-exhibition-publication” chronology and aims to reconfigure the traditional boundaries between disciplines. The program emphasizes collaboration and exchange, encouraging the reallocation of roles and skills.