Category: Publications and Presentations
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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…
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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,…
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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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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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Book: “Art & Cyborg”
With Quentin Petit dit Duhal (co-author), Paris: Double Ponctuation. In progress, scheduled for publication in Winter 2025.
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Article: “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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Article: 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, Galerie UQO (December 2024)
In December 2024, I co-edited, with Carmelle Adam, the conference proceedings Si les choses étaient différentes, nous ferions autrement, a project developed in collaboration with Galerie UQO. This publication brings together critical reflections and analytical essays examining the artistic practices of Geneviève Matthieu.
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Article: 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.
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Article: Geneviève Matthieu in Full Commitment: An Immersion in Contemporary Performance (December 2024)
The duo Geneviève Matthieu pushes the boundaries of performance by blending music, installation, and the staging of the body. In my article “Geneviève Matthieu in Full Commitment,” published in Si les choses étaient différentes, nous ferions autrement (If Things Were Different, We Would Do Otherwise), I explore their experimental approach and its impact on the…