Tag: body
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Mentorship for the Bleu foncé Project by the Non-Profit Organization PenserDanser (November–December 2025)
In November and December 2025, PenserDanser entrusted me with designing and leading a mentorship program for Bleu foncé: a project aimed at thinking democracy through the body, questioning politics through gesture, and turning dance into a tool for deliberation, dissensus, and co-creation.
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Mentorship for the “Artémis” Project with the Nonprofit Organization PenserDanser (Summer 2025)
As part of Artémis, a creation developed by PenserDanser, I was invited to design and lead a mentorship program that places philosophy, the body, and myth at the heart of the artistic process. My involvement in this project aligned with a trajectory I have been pursuing for several years: creating spaces where thought becomes movement, where…
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Session 4 – AFFECTIONS AND TRANSGRESSIONS OF THE BODY IN CONTEMPORARY ART(14-16 April, 2026 – International Colloquium Politics and Narratives of the Body)
This year again, I am honored to organize a session entitled: Session 4 – AFFECTIONS AND TRANSGRESSIONS OF THE BODY IN CONTEMPORARY ART at the International Colloquium Politics and Narratives of the Body (14-16 April, 2026).
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Presentation: 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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Presentation: 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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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.
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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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Thesis: The Survival of the Living in Photography. The Photographic Confusion Between the Body and the Object of the Mannequin to Robotics (2017 – 2023)
Can photography capture the boundary between the living and the inert? Through my thesis, The Survival of the Living in Photography, I explore the confusion between the body and the object, from the mannequin to robotics. By analyzing the works of Helmut Newton, Cindy Sherman, and Nick Knight, this research examines how photography shapes our…
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Article: From Fiction to Photographic Science Fiction: Between Imagination and Prosthetization of the Body (November 2019)
Science fiction has long explored the transformations of the human body through prostheses, whether medical, augmentative, or purely conceptual. “From Fiction to Prosthetic Science Fiction” focuses on how these technologies redefine our relationship with the world and ourselves. Between compensation and enhancement, these devices shape a new hybrid identity, a central subject in the science…
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Article: The Influence of Literary Monsters on the Post-Human Body (December 2018)
My article “The Influence of Literary Monsters on the Post-Human Body,” published in MERIDIAN of CRITICISM, explores how the figure of the literary monster influences post-human art. From Frankenstein to cyborgs, these motifs are reappropriated by artists like ORLAN and Joel-Peter Witkin to question the transformations of the body.