Author: Jessica Ragazzini Castello
-
Session – TRANSPARENT FLESH: REIMAGINING THE MEDICAL IMAGE IN CONTEMPORARY ART(8-10 April, 2026 – ASSOCIATION FOR ART HISTORY 2026 ANNUAL CONFERENCE)
This year, I am honored to organize a session entitled: Transparent Flesh: Reimagining the Medical Image in Contemporary Art at the ASSOCIATION FOR ART HISTORY 2026 ANNUAL CONFERENCE.
-
Exhibition review : « Le monde selon l’IA. L’IA et l’humanité : pour une nouvelle poétique du monde »
he article reflects on the exhibition “Le monde selon l’IA” at the Jeu de Paume, which explored the relationship between visual arts and artificial intelligence through more than forty artists. A key feature of the event was the invitation extended to ChatGPT to write both a preface and a critical commentary, positioning AI not only…
-
Exhibition review : L’usure du milieu de l’art : zone sinistrée dans un décor de théâtre abandonné by Milutin Gubash at Galerie UQO (2025)
The exhibition The Wear and Tear of the Art World: Disaster Zone in an Abandoned Theater Set by Milutin Gubash, curated by Marie-Hélène Leblanc at Galerie UQO (November 20, 2024 – January 18, 2025), explores the tensions between artistic production, obsolescence, and commodification. The gallery is transformed into a chaotic space filled with second-hand objects, evoking a…
-
Exhibition review : Antoine D’Agata, la Méthode, Centre Pompidou (2025)
In the Méthode exhibition-residency at the Centre Pompidou (September 23, 2024 – January 1, 2025), Antoine d’Agata transformed a museum gallery into an open studio, presenting thirty years of archives, personal objects, and visual narratives.
-
Presentation: Unveiling Through Words: A Day of Study on Patrice Loubier’s Curatorial Intervention at Galerie UQO
Between March 2023 and May 2025, Galerie UQO lent itself to a daring experiment: it invited Patrice Loubier to make the gallery the object and context for a “curatorial intervention.” Rather than propose an exhibition for presentation by the gallery, the idea was to develop a project that would invest the gallery from within, transforming…
-
Presentation: The Broken Machine: Aesthetics of Malfunction in Photography and Literature (April 24, 2025)
From April 23 to 25, 2025, I have had the opportunity to participate in the international conference The Representation of Machines in the Arts and Discourses, held at the University of Gafsa in Tunisia. I presented a paper entitled The Broken Machine: Aesthetics of Malfunction in Photography and Literature, and I also served as moderator for the…
-
Presentation: Fictional Disability in Artistic Science Fiction (April 2, 2025)
From Crash (1996) to Alita: Battle Angel (2019), via Avatar (2009), science fiction cinema has increasingly featured characters with simulated disabilities, reflecting a growing fascination with altered, hybrid, or augmented bodies at the intersection of eroticism, power, and technology. This talk explored how photographers Helmut Newton and Joel-Peter Witkin have created fictional representations that serve as critical tools for questioning norms,…
-
Conference Presentation: Connection and Co-Creation (October 27, 2023)
On October 27, 2023, I co-organized and participated, alongside Jessica Minier, in the workshop Connection and Co-Creation, presented as part of the conference Muséo-connexion: Concepts and Practices, organized by Nada Guzin Lukic at the Université du Québec en Outaouais.