This is a first. Ade Adesina, winner of the Mario Avati Engraving Prize, is the special guest of the Institut de France. Between realism and an imaginary world, his linographs immerse us in a dark clarity, an enigmatic black and white, bordering on the apocalypse, around dark subjects leading to the inevitable destruction of our planet. War, endangered species, deforestation, Adesina invokes strong and committed themes to raise awareness. How can we not remain frozen in front of this striking work The View after The Questions, in which a whirlwind in the shape of a mushroom cloud threatens to engulf what we have left of nature. Here, a small clock, the ultimate symbol of a countdown well underway, reminds us of the need to act.