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LUMA Days #5 / Recompose: Roadmap for Possible Worlds

Under the title Recompose: Roadmap for Possible Worlds, the 2021 edition of LUMA Days explored ways of navigating and charting new paths through rapidly changing realities. Bringing together perspectives from across disciplines, the program examined how we might rethink the ways we inhabit the world, use resources, and act collectively.

In the wake of the upheavals of the previous twelve months, questions about how to move forward had become increasingly urgent. But what does it mean to restart the economic engine if doing so requires pursuing infinite growth in a finite world at any cost?

Against this backdrop, recomposition emerged as an alternative to the idea of recovery. LUMA Days brought together artists, thinkers, scientists, and the public to explore this concept, imagine new futures, and develop new narratives and forms of exchange.

In this process of recomposition, what tools do we have to access resources sustainably? How do we develop new ideas, new goals, and new systems of belief when our traditional points of reference have shifted so profoundly? How do we rebuild communities when the ties that hold them together begin to dissolve? And, in an interconnected world, how do we redefine our ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities in the face of ecological and socio-political challenges?

Recomposition implies change. It can be understood as a process in which the decomposition of one element enriches—and even nourishes—the emergence of another. At this pivotal moment in an increasingly fragile world, LUMA Days offered intersecting cultural perspectives and unexpected points of departure across seemingly incommensurable ways of living, inviting participants to reimagine shared narratives and expand the fields of inquiry through which we understand the present.

LUMA Days took place in Arles from September 16–18, 2021. The opening day was dedicated to workshops focused on sustainable and regenerative territorial development, while the following two days adopted a more speculative approach to pressing contemporary questions. The program was organized around three themes: Recompose, With What Resources? (Day 1), Recompose the Transmission of Knowledge (Day 2), and Recompose Plural Worlds (Day 3).

Conceived and convened by Maria Finders, Martin Guinard, and Hans-Ulrich Obrist.

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Thursday, September 16, 2021: Recompose, With What Resources?

What resources are available and will help to define the development of a sustainable territory? Here is the question which frames the debate on the first day of Luma Days devoted to local territorial development. The aim is to draw up an inventory of existing resources, whether material, financial, cultural, and human, considering a collective desire to enhance available local wealth and trying to balance between economic, ecological, and social imperatives.

  • 6:00 p.m.: “Rapport d’étonnement”
    With Silvie Aries (writer), Joël Rumello (writer), Laetitia Sariroglou (journalist), and Philippe Thuru (writer). Read by Claude Lecat (actor).

  • 6:15 p.m.: Reversing the Use of Resources: An Egyptian Perspective
    By Lina Alorabi, founder of The New Egyptian.

  • 6:35 p.m.: Presentation
    By Philippe Bihouix (Managing Director, AREP).

  • 6:45 p.m.: The Geopolitics of Rare Metals
    By Guillaume Pitron (investigative journalist).

  • 7:00 p.m.: Energy: A History Without Transition
    By Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (historian of science, technology, and the environment).

  • 7:20 p.m.: Recompose: With What Resources?
    With Philippe Bihouix, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, and Guillaume Pitron.
    Moderated by Maria Finders (LUMA Days co-curator).

Friday, September 17, 2021: Recompose the transmission of knowledge

The definition and transmission of knowledge are mutating. How can knowledge be shared today, beyond classical pedagogical concerns, within the context of the generalization of distance education, the disruption of existing structures caused by the emergence of artificial intelligence or the development of continuing education throughout one’s professional life? Thus, recomposing the transmission of knowledge first requires rethinking within this new context. Discussions on horizontal rather than vertical transmission of knowledge continue to occupy an important part of the deliberations about pedagogy. However, how can such modes of transmission be reconciled with the reliability of information in the age of fake news?

Throughout the day, through the views of various speakers, whether teachers, botanists as well as artists, we will attempt to review what constitutes the fields of learning based on exchange and transmission.

  • 10:00 a.m.: Introduction to LUMA Days
    By Maja Hoffmann (founder, LUMA).

  • 10:00 a.m.: Toward a New Geography
    By Grégory Quenet (environmental historian).

  • 10:30 a.m.: La Plateforme, a Digital School in Marseille
    By Cyril Zimmermann (digital entrepreneur and President of La Plateforme).

  • 11:15 a.m.: The School of Mutants: University of African Futures
    With Olivia Anani (Co-Director of the Africa + Modern and Contemporary Art Department, Piasa), Hamedine Kane (filmmaker and artist), and Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro (artist, environmental engineer, and curator).
    Moderated by Martin Guinard (LUMA Days co-curator).

  • 11:45 a.m.: Les Vaillants
    A conversation with Sara Sadik (artist), Malaa (rapper), and Julie Boukobza (Head of Residencies, LUMA Arles).

  • 2:30 p.m.: Exploring Controversies from High School to Higher Education
    By Nicolas Benvegnu (Director of the METIS Program, Sciences Po).

  • 2:50 p.m.: Circular Economy Startups: Opportunities, Challenges, and Needs—Examples from Egypt
    By Heba Labib (Director of the Center for Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Competitiveness, Nile University, Egypt).

  • 3:10 p.m.: The Rural World: A Place and Model for Sharing Knowledge
    With Jean Rakovitch (Academic Director of the École du Domaine du Possible) and Émilie Rousselou (Director of the Université du Domaine du Possible and founder of the Spiruline arc-en-ciel farm).

  • 3:40 p.m.: The Rural World: A Place and Model for Sharing Knowledge
    With Gianfranco Baruchello (artist and farmer).
    Moderated by Hans Ulrich Obrist (Senior Advisor, LUMA Arles).

  • 4:15 p.m.: The Rural World: A Place and Model for Sharing Knowledge
    With Maurizio Rossi (co-founder of H-FARM and President of the H for Human Foundation) and Audrey Bourolleau (founder of the HECTAR campus).
    Moderated by Nicolas Benvegnu (Director of the METIS Program, Sciences Po).

Saturday, September 18, 2021: Recompose plural worlds

Questions about how to inhabit the world today are becoming particularly pressing. These concerns lead to a set of considerations on ways of worldmaking, welcoming different concepts of the relationship between humans and their environment. To admit that there can be several worlds is to accept that our representations of one world can change, and that consequently possible actions within it can be modified accordingly. As Philippe Descola asserts, at the end of his anthropological research "we only see what we have learned to see". This day will try to explore, through interventions by anthropologists, physicists, artists, and philosophers, multiple ways to construct these plural worlds.

  • 10:00 a.m.: Remember: An Opening Oracle
    By Alexis Pauline Gumbs (artist).
    Moderated by Hans Ulrich Obrist (Senior Advisor, LUMA Arles).

  • 10:30 a.m.: The Other of Thought
    By Manthia Diawara (writer and filmmaker).

  • 11:00 a.m.: The Forms of the Visible
    By Philippe Descola (anthropologist).

  • 11:30 a.m.: Restoring Anthropology: A Political Question
    By Nastassja Martin (anthropologist).

  • 12:00 p.m.: Reimagining Worlds
    With Philippe Descola (anthropologist), Nastassja Martin (anthropologist), and Eliza Levy (filmmaker).
    Moderated by Martin Guinard (LUMA Days co-curator).

  • 2:00 p.m.: Mass (17 min)
    By June Balthazard and Pierre Pauze.

  • 2:15 p.m.: Which World, at What Scale?
    With June Balthazard (artist), Pierre Pauze (artist), and Chiara Mariotti (particle physicist, CERN).
    Moderated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Martin Guinard.

  • 2:45 p.m.: Real Worlds / Virtual Worlds
    By Daniel Birnbaum (Director and Curator, Acute Art).

  • 3:00 p.m.: Recovery?
    A critical discussion with Laurent Fonbaustier (environmental law researcher), Philippe Rahm (architect), Hélène Tordjman (economist), and François Vatin (sociologist).
    Moderated by Sylvain Bourmeau (Director, AOC Media).

  • 4:00 p.m.: LUMA ABCD
    With Maja Hoffmann (Founder, LUMA), Vassilis Oikonomopoulos (Director of Exhibitions and Programs, LUMA Arles), Tom Eccles (Senior Advisor, LUMA Arles), and Hans Ulrich Obrist (Senior Advisor, LUMA Arles).
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Olivia Anani

Olivia Anani was born in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. She studied Asian Studies and contemporary art across three continents before beginning her career at Sotheby’s, Phillips, and Christie’s. She later joined PIASA as Co-Director of the Africa + Modern and Contemporary Art Department. As a researcher, writer, and curator, she has collaborated with the Taipei, Dakar, and Kampala Biennials, Beijing’s Zajia Lab, the Institut national d’histoire de l’art, the Centre Pompidou, the Gulbenkian Foundation, and Columbia University–Reid Hall in Paris. A member of the Board of the Amis du Palais de Tokyo since 2013, she served on the jury for the 2018 Prix des Amis, which supports emerging artists through their first major institutional exhibition.

Deeply interested in the power of the auction market to bring overlooked artists and art histories into focus, Anani has contributed to the sale of masterpieces by Francis Bacon, Alberto Giacometti, Nicolas de Staël, Cy Twombly, Mark Rothko, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Barthélémy Toguo, and Seydou Keïta. She has also worked on loans and acquisitions for institutions including the Louvre Museum and Louvre Abu Dhabi.

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June Balthazard

June Balthazard makes hybrid films confronting documentary with forms that are further from reality. In this respect, her films are imbued with magical realism. Her work has been shown in museums such as the Taipei Fine Arts Museum; arts centers like Les Tanneries and La Ferme du Buisson; and international festivals, including the Melbourne Film Festival in Australia, the Busan Festival in South Korea, Go Short in the Netherlands, RIDM in Canada, and Visions du réel in Switzerland, where she received the Opening Scenes Award in 2018.
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Gianfranco Baruchello

Gianfranco Baruchello was born on 29 August 1924 in Livorno. He is an Italian artist, painter, poet and filmmaker. A partner of Marcel Duchamp, very close to Gilles Deleuze and Jean-François Lyotard, Baruchello was part of the post-modern artistic avant-garde.
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Neïl Beloufa

Neïl Beloufa (b. 1985, Paris) is a Franco-Algerian artist based in Paris. Through his practice, he questions society and its issues through various mediums: films, sculptures, and installations. Nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2015, his work has been the subject of monographic exhibitions in France and abroad, notably at K11, Shanghai; MoMA, New York; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan; and Secession, Vienna. He also took part in the 55th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition and the Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2013, the 2014 Shanghai Biennale of Contemporary Art, and the 58th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition in 2019.
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Nicolas Benvegnu

Nicolas Benvegnu is a sociologist at the medialab of Sciences Po. His research focuses on the knowledge developed and mobilized by a diversity of actors to design ecological transition trajectories. He runs METIS, an interdisciplinary training project that has brought about new degrees in science and social sciences. He previously ran, with Bruno Latour, the Forccast program, an Initiative of Excellence in Innovative Training (ANR, 2012–2020), which was dedicated to the development of scientific cultures through the analysis of controversies.
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Philippe Bihouix

Philippe Bihouix worked as a consulting engineer and manager in various industrial sectors, transport and construction in particular, before joining the AREP group, a multidisciplinary architecture agency and subsidiary of the SNCF, as managing director. He is the author of several books about non-renewable resources and the associated technological challenges, especially "The Age of Low Tech. Towards a Technologically Sustainable Civilization" (Bristol University Press, 2021), and "Happiness Was for Tomorrow. The Reveries of the Solitary Engineer".
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Daniel Birnbaum

Daniel Birnbaum is director of London’s Acute Art, a laboratory exploring art and technology. He is professor of philosophy at the Städelschule in Frankfurt and the author of numerous books on art and philosophy. From 2000 to 2010 he was rector of the Städelschule in Frankfurt and director of its Portikus gallery. He has been a member of the board of directors of Frankfurt’s Institut für Sozialforschung as well as of Nobel Media, which organizes all events and productions surrounding the Nobel prizes. Between 2010 and 2018 he was director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm. He was co-curator of the 50th Venice Biennale (2003), the 1st Moscow Biennial (2005), Airs de Paris (with Christine Macel) at the Centre Pompidou (2007), and the 2nd Yokohama Triennial (2008). He organized 50 Moons of Saturn in Torino (2008), and Zero (with Tijs Visser) at Martin Gropius Bau (2015). In 2009 he was director of the 53rd Venice Biennial. He is a contributing editor to Artforum. Among his most recent projects are the VR exhibition Electric (Frieze New York, 2019) and the AR exhibitions Mirage (2020) at Beijing’s UCCA and The Looking Glass (with Emma Enderby) at New York’s The Shed and High Line (2021).
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Philippe Descola

Philippe Descola is a French anthropologist. After contributing to the ethnology of Amazonia, based on surveys among the Achuar Jivaro, he has devoted himself for years to the comparative anthropology of relations between humans and non-humans, and, more recently, to the anthropology of images. Professor emeritus at the Collège de France, he is the author of Domestic Nature, The Spears of Twilight (The New Press, 1996), Beyond Nature and Culture (The University of Chicago Press, 2013), Diversity of Natures. Diversity of Cultures, The Ecology of Others (Prickly Paradigm Press, 2013), Composing Worlds, An EcologyRelations, and Forms of the Visible. He was awarded the CNRS Gold Medal in 2012. Philippe Descola is a member of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

Jean-Baptiste Fressoz is a historian at the CNRS and the EHESS. He works on the history of the contemporary environmental crisis. He is the author of several books, including The Joyful Apocalypse. AHistory of Technological Risk, The Anthropocene Event. Earth, History, and Ourselves (with C. Bonneuil), and, more recently, The Revolts of the Sky. A History of Climate Change from the 15th to the 20th Century (with F. Locher). He is currently working on the history of energy and material symbioses in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Alexis Pauline GUMBS is a Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all life. She is/they are the author of several books, most recently Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals and the co-founder of the Mobile Homecoming Trust, an intergenerational experiential living library of Black LBGTQ brilliance.
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Hamedine Kane

Hamedine Kane is a Senegalese and Mauritanian artist and director, who lives and works between Brussels and Dakar. Through his practice, Kane frequents borders—not as signs and factors of impossibility, but as places of passage and transformation, serving as a central element in the conception of itinerant identity. After ten years of exile in Europe, his work now focuses on the themes of memory and heritage. This aspect of his practice is taking shape through the research project École des Mutants / The School of Mutants, in collaboration with Stéphane Verlet-Bottero. In his works, these themes intertwine with the past and the future, transcending and irrigating the limits of space and time. In 2020, Kane participated in the Taipei Biennial, the Casablanca Biennale, and various exhibitions as part of the Africa2020 season in France. His film The Blue House, which had its world premiere at IDFA in Amsterdam in November 2020, received a special mention from the jury.
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Chiara Mariotti

Chiara MARIOTTI is an elementary particle physicist. She builds detectors and conducts research on the Higgs boson at the LHC accelerator at CERN. She has held leadership positions in experiments at LEP and LHC. She founded the LHC Higgs Cross Section Working Group of physicists and theorists, which was instrumental in the discovery and measurement of the Higgs boson. She is also a musician and has coordinated a scientific and artistic band, where she plays the flute during sonification events. She was awarded the Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics by the European Physical Society (EPS) in 2018.
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Nastassja Martin

Nastassja Martin is an anthropologist and holds the Junior Professorship in Earth’s Habitability and Just Transitions (ISJPS, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, 2023–2026). She studied at EHESS under the supervision of Philippe Descola. She devoted her dissertation to the Gwich’in, an Indigenous people of northeastern Alaska, which formed the basis of her first book, Les Âmes sauvages: Face à l’Occident, la résistance d’un peuple d’Alaska (Wild Souls: An Alaskan People’s Resistance to the West) (La Découverte, 2016).

Her research develops a comparative anthropology of responses to environmental crises, with a focus on subarctic Indigenous cosmologies. After Alaska, she investigated the Even people of Kamchatka, whose ways of life were first reshaped by Soviet colonization and then contemporary extractivism. This work resulted in À l’est des rêves: Réponses even aux crises systémiques (To the East of Dreams: Even Responses to Systemic Crises) (La Découverte, 2022), in which performative dreams and mythical narratives engage with colonial logics and ecological disruption, as well as Croire aux fauves (In the Eye of the Wild) (Verticales, 2019).

Her current professorship extends this research, notably through a study on green hydrogen in Chile.

 

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Hans Ulrich Obrist

Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968, Zurich, Switzerland) is Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, and Senior Advisor at LUMA Arles. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show “World Soup : The Kitchen Show” in 1991, he has curated more than 350 shows.

 Obrist’s recent publications include Ways of Curating (2015), The Age of Earthquakes (2015), Lives of the Artists, Lives of Architects (2015), Mondialité (2017), Somewhere Totally Else (2018) The Athens Dialogues (2018), Maria Lassnig: Letters (2020), Entrevistas Brasileiras: Volume 2 (2020), and 140 Ideas for Planet Earth (2021).

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Pierre Pauze

Pierre Pauze develops installation and video protocols close to cinematic culture. He won the ADAGP’s Young Talent Revelation Prize for Digital Art-Video Art in 2019, the agnès b. Prize in 2016, and the Artagon Prize in 2015. His work has been exhibited in institutions such as the Grande Halle de la Villette, the Brownstone Foundation, the Carreau du Temple and the Magasins généraux in Paris; the Es Baluard Museum in Palma de Mallorca; and the K Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul.
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Guillaume Pitron

Guillaume Pitron is a French journalist (Le Monde Diplomatique, National Geographic, etc.) and documentary maker for France’s leading television channels. In 2018, he published his first book, "The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side Of the Energy Transition and Digitalization" (Scribe Editions). From Chinese rare earth metals, oil extraction in Alaska, to Sudanese gum arabic and khat trading in Djibouti, he focuses his work on commodities and on the economic, political and environmental issues associated with their use. This common thread is paired with geographic consistency: the African continent, particularly South Africa where Guillaume was a news correspondent in 2010. To date, he has authored around 100 reports, investigations and documentaries across more than 40 countries and has been awarded 14 French and international journalism awards. These include the Izraelezewicz Prize for best investigative report of the year, awarded by the leading daily newspaper Le Monde, and the award for best economic book of the year 2018.
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Hashim Sarkis

Hashim Sarkis is an architect, educator, and scholar. He is principal of Hashim Sarkis Studios (HSS), established in 1998 with offices in Boston and Beirut. He is also the Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 2015 and was the director/curator of the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale. Before joining MIT, Sarkis was the Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism at Harvard University. The architectural and urban projects of HSS include affordable housing, houses, parks, institutional buildings, urban design, and town planning. HSS has received several awards for its projects including for the Housing of the Fishermen of Tyre, Byblos Town Hall, and the Courtower Houses. The firm’s work has been exhibited around the world, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at the biennales of Venice, Rotterdam, Shenzhen/Hong Kong, and Valparaiso. The work has also been published extensively, including in a monograph by NESS.docs. Sarkis earned a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a Master of Architecture and a PhD in Architecture from Harvard University. He is author, co-author, and editor of several books and articles on modern architecture history and theory, including The World as an Architectural Project; Josep Lluís Sert: The Architect of Urban Design; Circa 1958, Lebanon in the Projects and Plans of Constantinos Doxiadis; and Le Corbusier's Venice Hospital.
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Grégory Quenet

Grégory Quenet is one of the pioneers of environmental history and the environmental humanities in France. Since 2012, he has been a professor of environmental history at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (Paris-Saclay). Founder of the French portal for environmental humanities, he organized the eighth European Society for Environmental History Conference in Versailles in 2015. Since its creation in 2024, he has been codirector of the Environmental Humanities research department at the Collège des Bernardins, where he held the Laudato si’: For a New Exploration of the Earth chair from 2021 to 2023. His latest book, Histoire de la pensée écologique (History of Ecological Thought), was published by PUF in May 2025. Since 2021, he has served as a scientific advisor for the Environmental History program at LUMA Arles.

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Maurizio Rossi

Maurizio Rossi, curiosity driven dreamer and always a keen observer, he is an entrepreneur since over 30 years, likes to understand people's lifestyles and their cultures. He's fascinated by how technologies impact our daily life and lifestyle. Pioneer in the startup business and Venture Capital in Italy, Maurizio is a co-founder, co-CEO for 15 years of H-FARM, one of the leading Innovation platforms in Europe. Previously for over 15 years, he served as Executive Vice-President of the family business group, being in charge of special projects and group development in both luxury and action-sport segments. The family shoe business was later acquired by the leading luxury holding LVMH. Maurizio completed a study of ship captain and managed to distinguish himself in the world of sports as a champion in offshore powerboat racing. Today, Maurizio is committed to running after his 4 children and looking for exciting adventures.
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Estelle Rouquette

Estelle Rouquette is a Doctor of Art History and Archeology. As Assistant Director of the Camargue Regional Nature Park, she organizes cultural projects, heritage, architecture, landscape, energy, and environmental education and awareness. She is also the Director of the Camargue Museum.
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Sara Sadik

Sara Sadik was in residence at LUMA Arles from march to june 2021.

Sara Sadik was born in 1994 in Bordeaux. In 2018, she obtained a master’s degree from Bordeaux School of Fine Arts. She lives and works in Marseille. She works on French youth from working-class neighborhoods and its culture, documenting its mysteries and deconstructing social mythologies, particularly those related to adolescence and masculinities. Her work is expressed in videos and performances, ranging from documentaries to science fiction and reality TV. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at 221 A (Vancouver, 2017), Karma International (Zürich, 2017), the Open’er Festival (Gdynia, 2017), Roodkapje (Rotterdam, 2018), Wallach Gallery-Columbia University (New York, 2019), Galerie Édouard Manet (Gennevilliers, 2019), Triangle France-Astérides (Marseille, 2021), Munchmuseet (Oslo, 2021) Magasins généraux (Pantin, 2021). She performed at the Do Disturb Festival, as part of the Triangle France-Astérides program (Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2019), and at the Parallèle Festival (Frac PACA and Friche Belle-de-Mai, Marseille, 2020). Her work is also featured in public collections such as the Cnap, the Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, the Frac PACA, and the City of Paris Museum of Modern Art. She is represented by the Crèvecœur Gallery, in Paris.

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Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro

Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro is an artist, ecologist, and curator. He lives and works between Paris, London, and Dakar. His work develops collective forms of attention and action in relation to radical education and ecological repair. In 2018, with Hamedine Kane, he launched The School of Mutants, an art and research platform based in Dakar, whose work has been exhibited in various biennials and arts centers around the world. He has had institutional collaborations with ZKM (Karlsruhe), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Institut Kunst (Basel), Technê Institute (Buffalo), Science Museum (London), and dOCUMENTA (13) (Kassel).