Art, like social science, has three duties. First: deploy controversies. Great art doesn’t soothe, it exposes disputes, invites new voices into the frame. Second: stabilize uncertainties. Formats, styles, and exhibitions give shape to chaos, making the invisible traceable. Third: compose the collective. Art gathers us, renewing the fragile sense of “we” through shared imagination. Bruno Latour reminds us: culture isn’t an abstract “society.” It’s a web of surprising connections, each artwork a mediator, never just an object.