What is black art?

Arts and Social Signs

Franck Scurti uses all mediums indifferently: video, sculpture, installation. His work is constituted around a reflection on art, social signs and the reality of the time. His works are often created from found materials and forms, things devoid of values that he carefully redefines by elaborating each time their logic of appearance. 

"Penser le Présent" A gallery owner's life: Dialogue with Chantal Crousel and Niklas Svennung

In 1980, Chantal Crousel founded her eponymous art gallery with the intention of reporting on the changes in international contemporary creation in France and around the world. Of Belgian origin, she chose to represent artists of different nationalities participating in the elaboration of a universal language through a wide variety of mediums.

Heritage and Contemporaneity: Dialogue with Cécile Debray

Cécile Debray has been General Curator of Heritage, Director of the Musée national de l'Orangerie, since June 2017. She was in charge of modern collections at the Musée national d'Art moderne / Centre Pompidou from 2008 to 2017, scientific advisor to the General Administrator of the RMN, in charge of programming at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, from 2005 to 2008, curator at the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris from 2000 to 2005.

Cancel Culture: dialogue with Éric Fassin

Painting in New York

Daughter of a Vietnamese father and a French mother, Julie Curtiss (1982) studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and graduated in 2006. She now lives and works in Brooklyn. 

Painting, sculpture and drawing: the lines and colors are sharp and immediately recognizable. Her work deploys a black humor in which female figures dominate. Silhouettes with forked nails, long hair, often faceless, they irrigate the canvases with a dark energy.

Two galleries represent her: Anton Kern (New York) and White Cube (London).

Aurélien Bellanger, born in 1980, has published 4 novels, La théorie de l'information, L'aménagement du territoire, Le grand Paris and Le continent de la douceur, which are like a long drift through the terminal mythologies of Western modernity. He has also written Eurodance, for the theatre, and since 2017 he has had a daily column on France Culture.

He talks with Alain Berland about the mythologies of Western modernity.

Marine Van Schoonbeek is the president and co-founder of the association Thanks for Nothing. Founded in 2017, she mobilises artists and the world of culture, together with Blanche de Lestrange, Anaïs de Senneville and Anne-Sarah Bénichou, by organising artistic and solidarity projects with a concrete impact on society. In February 2020, Thanks for Nothing was awarded the City of Paris consultation for the Denfert facade of the former Saint-Vincent-de-Paul hospital, for the installation of an art and solidarity centre of more than 4,000m2 in the heart of Paris.

Gisèle Sapiro is director of studies at EHESS, director of research at CNRS (European Centre for Sociology and Political Science) and a member of Academia Europae. A specialist in the sociology of culture, literature and intellectuals, she is the author of La Guerre des écrivains, 1940-1953 (Fayard 1999), La Responsabilité de l'écrivain. Littérature, droit et morale en France, XIXe-XXIe siècle (Seuil 2011), La Sociologie de la littérature (La Découverte 2014), Les Ecrivains et la politique en France (Seuil 2018), Peut-on dissocier l'œuvre de l'auteur? (Seuil 2020), Des mots qui tuent.

Heritage curator and art historian specializing in women artists, Camille Morineau is co-founder and director of AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions. Founded in 2014 based on the observation that women are under-represented, if not totally absent, in art works, exhibitions and museum collections, AWARE's mission is to contribute to making them visible through the creation, indexing and dissemination of information on women artists of the 20th century.