The Paris African Book Fair is an event dedicated to African and Afro-descendant literature in Europe and will welcome nearly 150 publishers and 400 authors from Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean to Paris. Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions will be taking part with a stand showcasing its publications.

Presentation of the African Fine Book Award

Signing event for the launch of the book Claude Rutault, La Marelle, entre la toile de la même couleur que le mur et la marelle.

Texts compiled and prefaced by Blandine Chavanne.

See with your mind as well as with your eyes

The career of feminist theorist and filmmaker Laura Mulvey has contributed to profoundly transforming our relationship with images. Since the 1970s, the theorist of the "male gaze" has continued to work on behalf of a mobilised gaze, conscious of the asymmetries between genders, asymmetries that structure the history of images, their reception and the ways in which they are produced.

Metahaven’s work between design, filmmaking, textile, installation, and writing has been thoroughly linked with the internet and its geopolitics, pairing research with experimental, exuberant aesthetics.

On 11 March 2011, Japan was shaken by the Fukushima disaster of unprecedented magnitude. What have we learned from this inextricably natural and nuclear disaster?

To discuss its echoes and resonances beyond Japan and "from our window", philosopher Clélia Zernik, curator Élodie Royer, researcher in film theory and aesthetics Élise Domenach, and writer Michaël Ferrier, who share a deep knowledge of the Japanese art scenes with which they maintain a long-standing dialogue, look back on this event and the upheavals it has caused. 

Rereading by Françoise d'Eaubonne of canonised works

Noémie Goudal designs illusionist installations staged in the landscape, which are then adapted into films, photographs and performances. Her work explores the many ways of observing and understanding natural environments. By dissecting the layers and perspectives of an image, she questions our mental constructions of the landscape. Through a perfect balance between realism and constructed fiction, her images sublimate the scientific substrate from which they never stray.

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).

Salomé Botella, a 2025 graduate, presents her book Pas si tant (Not So Much) published by Éditions de L'Ogre, as a series of snapshots of rural life drawn from the author's personal experience, who grew up in Creuse before leaving to study Fine Arts in Paris.

A programme of short films showcasing the work of artists who have developed a unique cinematic style. From documentary to fiction, this screening of films by Virgile Desbat, Marine Ducroux-Gaziot and Salomé Moindjie Gallet will be followed by a discussion with Mathieu Abonnenc, curator of the exhibition. They evoke games of desire and power, the anticipation of a coming catastrophe and the hope for a new life.

Marine Ducroux-Gazio
The Rainmaker (II, Raingrass), 14', 2025