Conference on Love

After noting that 95% of people will be in a relationship at some point in their lives, I ask myself why this practice is necessary, where the feeling of love comes from and what the different traditions of the couple are. Once the theories on the origins of love have been presented, I move on to the practical side of things, ending the talk with a demonstration of the things you can do with your hands while kissing your partner.

Using graphics, fabricated images and videos taken from the Internet, artist-lecturer Morgane Baffier develops all kinds of metaphysical theories and reflections, developing them to the point of absurdity. With a desire to deconstruct knowledge, she appropriates the codes used in business, the media and intellectual circles, and mocks, with wit and humour, the systems of power and authority that condition access to the spoken word.

Her research is rooted in digital cultures and the imaginary world of the Internet, which she explores as spaces for the production of contemporary narratives, beliefs and forms of authority. For several years now, she has been working on artificial intelligence - research supported by a post-master’s scholarship dedicated to these issues - which she approaches both as an aesthetic object and as an ethical and political field, focusing in particular on their use in intimate spheres as well as in the police and military.

Born in 1997, Morgane Baffier lives and works in Paris. A graduate of ENSAPC in 2020, her work has since been shown at MAC VAL (2025), the Palais de Tokyo (2025), the Art & Design Center in Fuzhou, China (2024), the Théâtre des expositions des Beaux Arts in Paris (2023), the 66th Salon de Montrouge, Paris (2022), the Mulhouse Biennial (2021) and at La Graineterie in Houilles in 2023 for her first solo show. She is the winner of a research grant on artificial intelligence at the ENSP in Arles in 2024-2025, the Marfa Prize in 2023 and the MAD Prize in 2022. His lectures have been presented at performance festivals such as Mois Multi in Quebec (2026), Les Urbaines in Lausanne (2023) and the Nemo Biennial in Paris (2021), and at several art schools in Europe (ECAL, Beaux Arts de Paris, Dijon, Nantes, Limoges, Arles, Rouen, etc.). The artist has benefited from research residencies at Recto Verso (Canada), Fieldwork Marfa (USA), Maison des Arts de Malakoff, Campus Condorcet, Abbaye de Maubuisson, Beaux-arts de Limoges and the AWARE association.