For the very first time, the Ursulines Chapel welcomes the work of a graphic designer, the poster artist Alain Le Quernec. The purpose of this exhibition is to highlight the commitment of the Breton poster designer, who over the last fifty years has created powerful and hard-hitting visuals, with posters that stimulate the lucidity of each and every one of us.

In our contemporary world there is a great need for poster artists who invite us to think, to decode, and to take a step back. At the Ursulines Chapel, a tour divided into five sections illustrates the power of posters, showing how they can shape the way we look at things, how they contribute to our civic life, and how they fuel our consciousness and imagination.

In the Charlie Hebdo room of Quimperlé’s media library, some press cartoons created by Alain Le Quernec for the French newspaper Le Monde, as well as pages from the regional daily newspaper Le Télégramme, will be on display.  In his capacity as graphic designer, Alain Le Quernec has worked for Le Télégramme on several occasions. He redesigned the format, grid and readability of the newspaper. Echoing the press cartoons he designed for Le Monde, some of his posters illustrate the fact that – in France – visual arts are the territory of humor, where nobody is afraid of laughing at or making fun of idols.

In the third section, a series of posters created by Alain Le Quernec will take the visitor to the streets of Quimperlé for a citizen dialogue on a range of various subjects (such as ecology, civic life, culture…). It is in the public space that posters acquire their full purpose.

During the preparation of this exhibition, and in reaction to the latest news and horrors of war, Alain Le Quernec has created a new series of images. Some of them will be printed especially for this exhibition and will be displayed in the Ursulines Chapel, as well as in the Stop war publication issued by the Town of Quimperlé for the occasion. Alain Le Quernec uses his posters as weapons to draw our attention to the need for peacekeeping.