‘A lesson in painting’ by Jamian Juliano-Villani

‘Capturing the feminine, contemplating the future: A look back at Land Art with Nancy Holt

American theorist Fernanda Negrete looks back at the work of Nancy Holt, proposing a reading at the intersection of psychoanalysis, eco-poetics and ecofeminism. As part of the ‘Troubles, alliances and aesthetics’ chair.

Julien Creuzet, artist and studio head at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, talks to Céline Kopp, co-curator of the French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024, about his creation.

‘What does the centre mean when you're French? What does the French Pavilion in Venice and national representation mean? How can we rethink all this, while being designated as ‘ultramarine’, with the feeling of belonging to a much more complex French history? I think we need to try and shed some light on it.

Meeting - Screening of the feature film La Récréation de Juillet in the presence of directors Joseph Rozé, a 4th year student at the Burki workshop, and Pablo Cotten, as well as actors Carla Audebaud, Alba Gaia Bellugi and Arcadi Radeff. 

The Beaux-Arts de Paris are taking part in the European Heritage Days - Saturday 21 September from 10.30am to 5.30pm - come and discover our listed buildings and the treasures they contain.

American artist Alison Saar (born 1956) has been chosen to create the Olympic sculpture in Paris, which will be inaugurated on 23 June 2024.

Born into a family of Los Angeles artists, Alison Saar's work deals with issues of justice and compassion, honouring people who have been under-represented and marginalised in the past, or continue to be so today.

Horya Makhlouf is artistic coordinator and curator of special projects at the Palais de Tokyo.

Daisy Lambert is an independent curator, researcher and co-founder of the SMAC collective. Committed to the study of mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in cultural institutions, her projects are conceived as a critical effort to distance herself from dominant knowledge and ways of thinking. She has recently worked with : Villa Arson, CAC Brétigny, Frac Ile de France, SAVVY Contemporary.

Since September 2021, Cédric Fauq has been chief curator at the CAPC - musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux. From 2020 to 2021, he was curator at the Palais de Tokyo.

Prior to that, he was curator of exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary (UK). An author, he also develops projects on a freelance basis. 

Penda Diouf is passionate about writing and the intimacy that live performance can create between hitherto unknown people, and enjoys writing about forgotten or invisible stories. The question of identity and exile runs through her texts, as does the idea of care and reparation. The relationship between fiction and politics guides her artistic approach.

For the past 9 years, she has also been co-organising the "Jeunes textes en liberté" festival to support playwrights and promote a diversity of narratives, stories and forms. 
 

Sound reading by Costanza Spina and Alexi Shell

In their performances, author Costanza Spina and singer and musician Alexi Shell bring to life a dreamlike and liberating queer imagination. For this sound reading, Alexi Shell will be putting on a live performance to accompany Costanza Spina's reading from her book ‘Manifesto for a Deviant Democracy - Queer Love in the Face of Fascism’, as well as previously unpublished texts from her forthcoming novel, ‘Infinite Letter’. 

Photo : ©Zoé Chauvet