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[In French]<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Dialogue sur l\u2019art et la politique pr\u00e9sente une th\u00e9orisation de l\u2019engagement politique en art \u00e0 partir de deux voix fortement contrast\u00e9es. \u00c9douard Louis est un jeune \u00e9crivain fran\u00e7ais dont les r\u00e9cits, largement inspir\u00e9s de son exp\u00e9rience de fils homosexuel d\u2019une famille ouvri\u00e8re en r\u00e9gion rurale, ont permis de r\u00e9investir la lutte des classes dans le champ litt\u00e9raire et intellectuel contemporain. Il publie dans la collection qu\u2019il dirige aux Presses universitaires de France une conversation originalement produite pour une \u00e9mission de la chaine de t\u00e9l\u00e9vision Al Jazeera<\/em>. Son interlocuteur, le cin\u00e9aste octog\u00e9naire anglais Ken Loach, partage plusieurs des th\u00e8mes de pr\u00e9dilection de Louis, dont la condition ouvri\u00e8re dans un monde postindustriel, l\u2019\u00e9puisement des corps au travail et les incoh\u00e9rences des politiques publiques en mati\u00e8re d\u2019aide sociale.  <\/pre>\n\n\n\n
L\u2019incipit pose en diptyque deux \u0153uvres, l\u2019une de Louis, Qui a tu\u00e9 mon p\u00e8re<\/em> (2018), l\u2019autre de Loach, I, Daniel Blake<\/em> (2016). Elles racontent deux histoires d\u2019ouvriers invalides pers\u00e9cut\u00e9s par une administration publique insensible et m\u00e9prisante \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9gard de leur condition et de leurs besoins. \u00c0 partir de ce rapprochement s\u2019articule l\u2019interrogation principale du livre : comment l\u2019art, comme forme de discours, peut-il transformer le langage politique\u2009? Au fil du dialogue, les deux artistes cherchent \u00e0 confronter une certaine gauche bienpensante \u00e0 leur ignorance volontaire de certaines r\u00e9alit\u00e9s comme la peur de la faim et \u00e0 ce qu\u2019elle produit comme violence et cruaut\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Quoiqu\u2019exemplifi\u00e9es depuis la litt\u00e9rature et le cin\u00e9ma, les r\u00e9ponses offertes mobilisent des th\u00e8mes abondamment convoqu\u00e9s dans le monde de l\u2019art contemporain. La fameuse \u00ab\u2009communaut\u00e9\u2009\u00bb, par exemple, terme souvent utilis\u00e9 comme euph\u00e9misme pour parler de pauvret\u00e9, est investie avec justesse par Loach d\u2019abord, dont l\u2019influence marxiste et syndicaliste conduit \u00e0 en c\u00e9l\u00e9brer la solidarit\u00e9, ensuite par Louis qui en propose une lecture intersectionnelle. Ce dernier rappelle sans complaisance que la violence des classes reconduit d\u2019autres formes de violences intestines, comme l\u2019homophobie ou le machisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Devant un art contemporain qui traite de la condition ouvri\u00e8re soit sous une forme interventionniste en pr\u00eatant assistance aux d\u00e9munis gr\u00e2ce aux \u00ab\u2009arts communautaires\u2009\u00bb, soit par l\u2019image en repr\u00e9sentant l\u2019Autre (les sans-abris, le Tiers Monde) dans un geste que l\u2019on souhaiterait critique, la conversation donne \u00e0 penser une troisi\u00e8me voie, plus rare mais tout aussi probante : celle d\u2019artistes qui comme Louis racontent \u00e0 la premi\u00e8re personne des origines g\u00eanantes et une pauvret\u00e9 personnellement v\u00e9cue. Ce nouveau langage politique qui d\u00e9stabiliserait l\u2019ordre du monde existe d\u00e9j\u00e0, mais il est port\u00e9 par des voix que l\u2019on peine \u00e0 faire entendre dans le monde de l\u2019art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alors que les marxistes n\u2019ont de cesse de rappeler \u2013 habituellement avec tr\u00e8s peu de succ\u00e8s \u2013 que la pauvret\u00e9 est elle aussi une forme de marginalit\u00e9, ce livre, quoique bref, d\u00e9fend tr\u00e8s bien sa pertinence. Il se termine d\u2019ailleurs sur une remarque, plut\u00f4t acerbe, qui nous est adress\u00e9e : la \u00ab\u2009bourgeoisie culturelle\u2009\u00bb, comme on l’appelle, \u00ab\u2009a l\u2019impression d\u2019\u00eatre du bon c\u00f4t\u00e9 du monde\u2009\u00bb, mais trop souvent fait de l\u2019\u0153uvre d\u2019art \u00ab\u2009l\u2019instrument de son contentement\u2009\u00bb (p. 62).
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