A challenge as original as it was interesting was proposed to me at the beginning of summer. I couldn’t resist this slightly crazy and not really realistic project while the Musée de l’Homme was closing its doors for two months, both to the public and to researchers. Because in fact, the place has become the temporary set of France Télévisions. The view of Paris that you enjoyed during the Olympic broadcasts is from the terrace that is just above my office! I’m lucky, aren’t I? So, while you shared a piece of my daily life, the incomparable view of Paris that we have from the top of the museum, I took homework for my remote work.
It was decided to present for the start of the school year an exhibition around Silex and the City, the offbeat world invented by the brilliant Jul (not his rapper namesake, but the author and cartoonist). A marvel of humor and current events projected into a time that I know a little, prehistory. After 9 volumes and a TV series, the feature film and a tenth album are coming out these days. So all that was missing was the exhibition! But how could we confront this gem with the seriousness of a gallery of the illustrious Museum? All this in a terribly limited time, since only a few weeks were allocated to us to have good ideas and create everything.
