“For a counter-mapping of resistance practices (art, ritual and politics)”
Screening & conversation with Camille Lévy-Sarfati
Event date: February 21st, 2025 at 6:30 PM
As a closing event to her research residency at Selebe Yoon, writer and curator Camille Lévy-Sarfati will present her ongoing research "For a counter-mapping of resistance practices (art, ritual and politics)”. What do tirelessly repeated gestures, breaths, songs and prayers tell us? What do our rites carry - in movement, in struggle and in sharing, from one end of the continent to the other? At this meeting, Camille Lévy Sarfati will present her current research on the interaction between ritual practices, art and politics. A questioning of ritual (and its artistic translations) carried out in collaboration with a constellation of artists and thinkers from the Afro-Asian continents and their diasporic canvases.
Camille Lévy-Sarfati
An independent curator and writer based in Tunis, Camille Lévy-Sarfati is the former director of the 32bis art centre. Her research focuses on the question of ritual as a political space and on practices of resistance or survival that bring together the fields of contemporary art, the spiritual and the political. She is particularly interested in contemporary practices in North Africa and West Asia, around which she has devised various exhibitions and accompanying programmes. At the same time, she is making a documentary film about the experience of returning home, questioning the nationalisms and conflicting memories linked to Tunisia's Jewish history.
She is the co-founder of the Nessij collective (‘canvas’ in Arabic), which aims to promote the Tunisian art scene internationally, encourage the mobility of artists and art workers, and strengthen solidarity between art scenes, particularly in the South.