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Clelia Coussonnet

Clelia Coussonnet an independent curator, art editor and writer. Her practice revolves around how visual cultures tackle political, social and spiritual issues in different, or complementary, ways than other disciplines. She likes to create interdisciplinary projects outside of traditional art circuits, particularly in contexts linked to craft or heritage and in spaces previously unused for cultural projects.

Lately, her research has been revolving around botanical politics and power structures. She has been investigating how systems of meaning have been impressed upon flora throughout eras of imperialism, colonialism, and globalisation, and considers nature not as passive but as an integral agent in History. In this, she organised the exhibitions Botany under Influence at apexart, New York, USA (2016) and Leave No Stone Unturned [Remuer la terre] at Le Cube — independent art room (2019), and wrote Waking Dormant Seeds, an essay looking at academic, artistic and curatorial practices focusing on botanical politics for Theatrum Botanicum, edited by Uriel Orlow and Shela Sheikh (2018).

Recently, she curated Alter me, Alter you [Промени ме, променям те] at the Goethe-Institute Sofia, Bulgaria (2018); Olympic Stadium at Le Patio, Paris, France (2018); and co-curated with Claire Astier the show, performance and night screening Au loin les signaux, al lou’lou’ held during the Heritage Days in the dockyards of L’Anse du Pharo, Marseilles, France (2017).
In 2019, she participates to the HICP residency in Helsinki and to Tate Intensive: The Case for Action at the Tate Modern, in London.

As an editor, she published driftongue with Clément Faydit and Alexandros Simopoulos (2018), result of a residency in Nuuk, Greenland (2017) —a workshop organised by Hors Pistes between international designers and local craftsmen. She also co-edited with Missla Libsekal In/Visible Voices of Women, an artist’s book on Safaa Erruas, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Nicène Kossentini, Amina Menia and Zineb Sedira (2019).

 

Links
• Website of Clelia Coussonnet
• Editorial project “In/Visible Voices of Women”, eds. Clelia Coussonnet & Missla Libsekal, artist book about Safaa Erruas, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Nicène Kossentini, Amina Menia, Zineb Sedira
• Editorial set driftongue, with Clément Faydit & Alexandros Simopoulos
• Essay published in “Theatrum Botanicum”, eds. Uriel Orlow & Shela Sheikh

expositions & événements

curators zone - exhibition

Leave No Stone Unturned

14.11.19
Clelia Coussonnet, Vue de l'exposition
Vue de l'exposition "Alter Me, Alter You [Промени ме, променям те]" au Goethe-Institut – Sofia
du 27 juillet au 29 août 2018.
Crédits photo : Radostin Sedevchev

Artistes de l'exposition: Petja Dimitrova, Sophia Grancharova, Jacob Kirkegaard, Ioana Nemes, Vesselina Nikolaeva, Andrea Popyordanova, Sevda Semer, Vitto Valentinov
Clelia Coussonnet, Vue de l'exposition individuelle de Marion Gambin
Vue de l'exposition individuelle de Marion Gambin "Olympic Stadium" au Patio - Paris
du 14 au 31 mai 2018.
Crédits photo : Marion Gambin
Clelia Coussonnet, Vue de l'exposition
Vue de l'exposition "Au loin les signaux, al lou'lou'" aux chantiers navals de l'Anse du Pharo – Marseille
du 15 au 17 septembre 2017.
Crédits photo : Clelia Coussonnet

Artistes de l'exposition: Bertille Bak, Marcel Dinahet, Clémence Marin & Marguerite Reinert, Geoffroy Mathieu, Enrique Ramírez, Linda Sanchez, Elvia Teotski
Performance: Myriam El Haïk.
Projection: Neil Beloufa, Jacynthe Carrier, André Fortino, Lola Gonzàlez
Clelia Coussonnet, Vue de l'objet éditorial
Vue de l'objet éditorial "driftongue"
Éditeurs: Clelia Coussonnet, Clément Faydit, Alexandros Simopoulos
Publié par Hors Pistes
Octobre 2018, anglais
24 x 33 cm, composé de 18 fragments de tailles variables, impression offset, riso & thermique, couverture souple à rabat
Édition limitée: 300 copies
Dans le cadre de la résidence Hors Pistes Nuuk, Groenland, 2017
Clelia Coussonnet, Vue de l'exposition
Vue de l'exposition "Botany under Influence" à apexart - New York
du 7 septembre au 22 octobre 2016.
Crédits photo : apexart

Artistes de l'exposition: Alberto Baraya, Joscelyn Gardner, Sasha Huber & Petri Saarikko, Kapwani Kiwanga, Pia Rönicke, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz

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