La Boussole et l'Orchidée

at Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers · Paris

La Boussole et l'Orchidée is a temporary exhibition that brings together diverse artistic visions around two powerful symbols: the compass, representing direction and human orientation, and the orchid, embodying beauty, rarity, and the natural world. The exhibition invites visitors to explore how artists across cultures and disciplines engage with these motifs to examine our relationship with geography, discovery, and the environment.

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Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers · Paris

The Conservatoire national des arts et métiers is an AMBA-accredited French grande école and grand établissement. It is a member of the Conférence des Grandes écoles, which is an equivalent to the Ivy League schools in the United States, Oxbridge in the United Kingdom, the C9 League in China, or…

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