As it does every summer, the French Academy in Rome presents to the public the projects of the sixteen fellows who have completed their year of residence at Villa Medici. Leaving the intimacy of their studios, the artworks of Haig Aivazian, Bianca Bondi, Jérôme Printemps Clément-Wilz, Nicolas Daubanes, Abdessamad El Montassir, Alessandro Gallicchio, Amalia Laurent, Pierre-Yves Macé, Clovis Maillet, Nicolas Sarzeaud, Claudia Jane Scroccaro, Seynabou Sonko, Ana Vaz, Pierre Von-Ow, Lise Wajeman and Louisa Yousfi thus cross the threshold of the exhibition halls.
The title of the exhibition, curated by Lilou Vidal, is inspired by the first line of a short poem by Italian poet Amelia Rosselli, born in Paris in 1930, whose rhythmic and dissident language subverts the foundations of normative language and dominant narratives. In a collective gesture carried by a diversity of voices, the exhibition takes shape through a variety of artistic practices—from literature to musical creation, art history, visual arts, photography and cinema.
The visual narrative is punctuated by literary sentences chosen by the fellows in response to Amelia Rosselli’s words, which spill across the walls and exhibition rooms of the Villa like pages of a book, thanks to a typographic intervention by Montasser Drissi, specially invited for the occasion. A program of performances, activations and educational activities will run throughout the exhibition.
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