This exhibition explores this mysterious feeling and gives artists and scientists a platform to embrace the realms of love.

From desire to attachment, via proof of love and love on the internet… Is there such a thing as the science of love?

It reveals what lies behind this universal feeling. What are the different forms of attachment? What happens in our brains when we fall in love? How is sexuality formed? What is love?

Without taboos, De l’amour takes us on a whirlwind tour of knowledge and attempts to unravel the mystery of the different forms of love.

Artistic creations on the art of love, projections on the mechanisms of the brain during lovemaking, mini role-playing games, activities on sexual orientation and gender identity, without overlooking the issue of consent. De l’amour inspires, surprises, disrupts and questions.

De l’amour is a scientific, artistic and sociological journey that warms the heart. A declaration of love to all its visitors!

The tour is divided into two parts:

The attachment gallery

From familial love to carnal love, via social bonds, the word love takes many forms.

While French uses the term ‘love’, Greek has four words to describe it, four entries that the gallery illustrates to shed a little more light on this mystery and reveal the latest scientific research on love: érôs, desire, carnal passion; storgê, familial love; agap, selfless love; and philía, friendship, social bonds.

Excerpts from authors’ texts, installations, video projections, everyday objects, music, a wall of tags… enlighten us and show us that love is not just a matter of words but also of the body.

The science gallery

After an artistic stroll, the second part of the exhibition offered seven themes for a more scientific approach to love; or love as a subject of study, explored in detail by researchers, sociologists, sexologists, psychoanalysts and philosophers.

The installations gave them a voice, from ‘What is love?’ to John Bowlby’s ‘attachment theory’, via online love and the famous Instagram account Amours solitaires (Lonely Loves) and its 2.0 declarations, which appeal to younger people.