Author: Elodie Manai
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Presentation: “Le corps chose à la recherche du sensible” (The Thing-Body in Search of the Sensible)
Le corps chose à la recherche du sensible, presentation for the Écritures, performances et créations plastiques conference, organized by the Laboratoire(s) corporel(s). Originally scheduled for February 12, 2021 (postponed due to COVID-19 – date to be determined).
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Presentation: “L’handicap fictionnel dans la science-fiction artistique” (Fictional Disability in Artistic Science Fiction)
L’handicap fictionnel dans la science-fiction artistique, presentation for the Science-fiction et handicaps conference, Université Grenoble Alpes, organized by Stella Incognita. Scheduled from April 2 to April 4, 2025.
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Publication: “Photographier la chair pour une rébellion du corps” (Photographing Flesh as a Rebellion of the Body)
In Rebelles : figures et représentations de la contestation sociale dans les littératures de l’imaginaire, edited by Danièle André, Annabel Audureau, and Elodie Chazalon. Scheduled for publication in Fall 2025.
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Publication: “Art & Cyborg”
With Quentin Petit dit Duhal (co-author), Paris: Double Ponctuation. In progress, scheduled for publication in Winter 2025.
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Publication: “Kenny et la représentation du handicap comme corps valide” (Kenny and the Representation of Disability as a Valid Body) – Temporary Title)
With Maxime Savoie, in Images secondes, No. 7, under the direction of Romain Chareyron and Barbara Fougère-Danezan. Scheduled for publication in Winter 2025.
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Lecturer (2022-2025)
Since 2022, I have been teaching “Exhibition: Theory and Practice” at the University of Quebec in Outaouais. This course combines critical analysis and exhibition design, exploring cultural mediation and scenography. It is a rewarding experience that allows me to share my passion for museology while developing interactive pedagogical approaches.
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Between Seeing and Being: The Dichotomy of the Body in Medical and Artistic Imagery in the Phenomenological Experience (2024-2026)
How do medical and artistic images transform our perception of the body? This postdoctoral research explores the dichotomy between the living body and its technical representation. By intersecting art and medicine, it examines how medical imaging, purportedly objective, and artistic imagery, laden with emotions, shape our bodily experience in the 21st century.
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The Skin of the Bodybuilder through the Lens of Valérie Belin: An Artistic Interpretation of the Athletic Body (December 2024)
This article explores Valérie Belin’s work on the skin of bodybuilders, between hyperrealism and abstraction. Through her series Bodybuilders I and Bodybuilders II, the photographer transforms flesh into a plastic surface, questioning the materiality of the sculpted body. This analysis examines photography as a medium of bodily transformation and its impact on the perception of…
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If Things Were Different, We Would Do Otherwise – Conference Proceedings, UQO Gallery (December 2024)
In December 2024, I co-directed, with Carmelle Adam, the publication of the conference proceedings “If Things Were Different, We Would Do Otherwise” at the UQO Gallery. This publication explores artistic and curatorial practices in times of uncertainty, questioning the ability of artists and curators to reinvent their approaches in response to social and cultural transformations.
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The Body without Organs of Cindy Sherman: A Reinterpretation of Corporeality in Contemporary Art (December 2024)
Cindy Sherman deconstructs representations of the body through unsettling photographic stagings. In my article “The Body without Organs of Cindy Sherman,” published in Políticas y narrativas del cuerpo 2 (Politics and Narratives of the Body 2), I explore how her work challenges identity, materiality, and bodily vulnerability in contemporary art.