Category: Presentations
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Communication : Photographier la recherche : enquête sensible sur les gestes du savoir (November 18, 2025)
I will have the pleasure of traveling to Nantes for the study days Faire•Dire : écritures alternatives de la recherche – Dire 2025 : Quel(s) acte(s) pour la parole de la recherche ?, where I will present on November 18 a conference entitled « Photographier la recherche : enquête sensible sur les gestes du savoir ».
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Communication : Le Japon dans les arts et la littérature. Autour de la photographie de Michael Kenna (November 14, 2025)
On November 14, 2025, I gave a lecture that was particularly close to my heart, “Erotisme, deuil et excès : représenter le Japon autrement dans l’œuvre photographique de Nobuyoshi Araki,” at Lycée Champollion in Grenoble, France.
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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…
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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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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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Exploring the Merleau-Pontian Tension in 20th-Century Art at Philopolis (February 24, 2024)
On February 24, 2024, during the Philopolis conference at McGill University, I presented “La tension merleau-pontienne du corps dans la production artistique du XXe siècle” (“The Merleau-Pontian Tension of the Body in 20th-Century Artistic Production”), exploring Merleau-Ponty’s influence on modern art and the perception of the body as a creative element.
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Avant-guard of Research-Creation: My Experience Co-Organizing a Roundtable (October 21, 2023)
On October 21, 2023, during the roundtable “Prospective de la recherche-création” (“Futures of Research-Creation”) at the Création-recherche exhibition, I co-organized and discussed the enriching intersections between art and academia, exploring the possible futures of this dynamic symbiosis.
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Redefining the Limits of the Body: My Presentation on Prosthetics as Clothing Extensions (May 5, 2023)
On May 5, 2023, at a conference in Montreal, I presented “Revêtir la prothèse pour restructurer le corps” (“Wearing the Prosthetic to Restructure the Body”), exploring how prosthetics, as wearable extensions, redefine identity and bodily perception in contemporary fashion.
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Navigating the Complexity of Creation: My Experience with Collectif 2J2R (February 6, 2023)
On February 6, 2023, during a study day at the University of Strasbourg, I shared the challenges of integrating artistic creation into academic research with Collectif 2J2R, highlighting the innovative methodologies at the heart of our practice-based PhD.
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Unveiling Survival Through the Monstrous: My Presentation on David Nebreda (November 18, 2022)
On November 18, 2022, during the conference “Monster(s) on Screen(s). The Sequel”, I explored “Le corps monstrueux de David Nebreda – une tentative photographique pour la survie” (“The Monstrous Body of David Nebreda – A Photographic Attempt at Survival”), analyzing his self-portraits as expressions of pain and isolation, and their impact on our perception of…