“Imperceptible” is the title of a shared conversation between Jean Le Peltier, actor and director, and Yann Pellegrin, a researcher at the CEISAM laboratory, which took place on Thursday, March 19, at the Théâtre Universitaire (TU) in Nantes.
Through direct experiences and historical accounts, this conversation revealed the gap between the narratives we construct about reality and reality itself. It questioned how our representations—implicit, simplified, or left unquestioned—come to conceal the invisible complexity of the most ordinary aspects of our existence. Where matter appears to us as the expression of solidity, though it is largely made of emptiness. Where the warmth of the sun comes from its light. Where we know that glass is made from sand, yet still wish, one day, to truly see it for ourselves.
An encounter between two forms of understanding: that which tells and that which shows—between the false clarity of our mental habits and the grand opacity of what we do not see.