Prix Marcel Duchamp: Xie Lei
Talk not open to the public but the exhibition of the nominees of the Prix Marcel Duchamp will be open at Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Talk not open to the public but the exhibition of the nominees of the Prix Marcel Duchamp will be open at Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
is a Venice-based curator, researcher and broadcaster for Projets Media. Her projects and researches revolve around activating archives, adolescence, illegal astronomy, carnivalesque, Georgian art, Van Gogh as well as the rurality.
She recently curated the Georgian Pavilion of the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. A MFA Curating Goldsmiths graduate, Julia Marchand was a curator at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles between 2015 and 2023. In 2016, she founded the curatorial platform Extramentale dedicated to adolescence within visual art, working on specific projects with Saradibiza (for her site-specific video games TVSF exhibited at the Centre Pompidou Metz and at the Festival Octobre Numérique – Faire Monde), Anaïs-Tohé Commaret (Centre d’Art Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers) Mohamed Bourouissa (Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles), Lisa Yuskavage (David Zwirner, Paris), Henry Darger (Galerie Sultana, Paris) and Paul McCarthy (Hauser & Wirth, Monaco).In 2020, she organized a day-long symposium on the carnivalesque art at the Centre Pompidou Paris with Claire Tancons, Paul B. Preciado, Jenkin v. Zyl, Mathis Colins and Jean-Baptiste Carobolante.
She is currently working on an exhibition revolving around Iliazd and the Boîte-en-Valise by Marcel Duchamp for the Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare (with Eva Brioschi) as well as a site-specific commission with artist Liselor Perez for the Church Saint-Eustache in partnership with Rubis Mécénat and Beaux-Arts de Paris.
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