A library exhibition by Marie Samuel Levasseur
EXTENDED – July 16 - September 27, 2025
In anticipation of this research project at Artexte, Marie Samuel Levasseur aspired to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in audiodescription and textual description in art, anchored in an intersectional approach. Beyond reading, through conversation and writing, she used her small-talk methodology to reflect on modes of textual and audio description, but also on alternative modes of description. As a research-practitioner, she subscribes to the notion of returning to the things themselves and to research through multiplicity as a tool – not to aim for precision of thought – but rather as a means of touching on what appears to be essential in our relationships to ourselves and to others. For Samuel Levasseur, questioning access to art means questioning its “essence.” This research project sought to revisit the very concept of “description” by carefully examining how artists from equity-seeking communities describe their own works. She paid particular attention to self-published books, micro-stories of the self, manifestations of circular thinking, and reparative strategies at work in descriptive gesture and speech.
Discover the annotated bibliography compiled by Marie Samuel Levasseur during her research residency at Artexte HERE [in French only]
Discover all of Artexte’s thematic bibliographies HERE