Faire avec : mes associations

"Faire avec" here means both making do with a context and not doing things alone, but with others. These two dimensions structure this encounter with Pauline Curnier Jardin, whose work combines performance, cinema and visual arts, and is based on collective practices, collaborations and ritual forms (processions, carnivals, films).
From her early performances with the group Les Vraoums (2006) to the creation of the Feel Good Cooperative during her stay at the Villa Medici in 2020, her work explores forms of shared creation. The meeting will be punctuated by the screening of Fireflies, shot in Rome in the footsteps of Pasolini, and Adoration, made with inmates of the Giudecca prison and presented at the 2022 Venice Biennale.

Pauline Curnier Jardin will be in conversation with Nicolas Feodoroff, critic, programmer and teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts de Marseille.

Artist Pauline Curnier Jardin (born in 1980 in Marseille, France) works at the intersection of several mediums, including installation, performance, film and drawing. Her dazzling film installations create heterodox worlds and tell stories, offering alternative narratives. She is the winner of the German National Gallery Prize (2019) and the Villa Romana Prize in Florence (2021) and was a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome (2019–2020).

In recent years, her work has been presented or commissioned by numerous institutions, including: the Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2013, 2020 and 2026), the Galeria Municipal do Porto (2025), Kiasma (Helsinki, 2024), MACRO (Rome, 2024), the Centraal Museum (Utrecht, 2023), the Kunsthaus Pasquart (Biel, 2023), the CRAC Occitanie (Sète, 2022), the FRAC Corse (2022), the Fondazione Memmo (Rome, 2022), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, 2022), LIAF (Venice and Kabelvåg, 2022), Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin, 2021), INDEX – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation (Stockholm, 2021), Steirischer Herbst festival (Graz, 2020), Manifesta 13 (Marseille, 2020).

Nicolas Feodoroff is a critic at the crossroads of art and cinema, a programmer and teacher of image studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in Marseille.
From 2006 to 2024, he was a programmer and exhibition curator at FIDMarseille. As an independent programmer, he has designed and presented numerous series for institutions such as the Cnap, the BAL, the Mucem, the [mac] Marseille and the Jeu de Paume in Paris.
 

Crédit photo : © Palma Llopis