The Right to Beauty: Questioning the Utilitarianism of Story Telling

As crises accelerate, artists are increasingly expected to be useful, educational, and engaged. But can creation be reduced to a political tool? In this conversation, author Corinne Morel Darleux and actor Swann Arlaud explore the role of beauty, nuance, and sensitivity in storytelling. How can we tell stories about the world without imposed moral lessons or directives? How can a work resonate authentically without becoming mere propaganda?

A free-form discussion on imagination as a force for emancipation.

Corinne Morel Darleux – author of Plutôt couler en beauté que flotter sans grâce, Alors nous irons trouver la beauté ailleurs, and Du fond des océans les montagnes sont plus grandes.