Spring 2024 Exhibition Opening Celebration

Annouchka de Andrade was until recently the Artistic Director of the International Film Festival of Amiens, a film festival focused on arthouse cinema and African and South American films. With over 30 years of experience, de Andrade has worked in international cultural cooperation with a strong focus on audiovisuals, cultural heritage, and production in France, Spain, Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Peru, and Ecuador. With her sister, Henda Ducados, she has developed a project to preserve and share the work of their parents, Sarah Maldoror and Mário de Andrade.

François Piron is an exhibition curator, art critic, teacher, and publisher. He is currently a curator at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. He created several independent organizations in the field of contemporary art and comanages the cooperative publishing house Paraguay in Paris. His curatorial work focuses on the relationships between art, literature, history, and the social sciences. He strives to make marginalized areas of culture visible with a political aim of questioning the role of institutions. Recent projects include a book of interviews with philosopher and publisher Sylvere Lotringer and the exhibition Exposed (Palais de Tokyo, 2023), which examines the impact of the AIDS epidemic on artistic practices.

Since September 2021, Cédric Fauq has served as chief curator at CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux where his most recent projects include the exhibitions Amour Systémique (Systemic Love), Barbe à Papa (Cotton Candy), and Le Club du Poisson-Lune (The Moonfish Club) as well as the never-ending festival L’Académie des Mutantes (The Mutant Academy). At CAPC, he also collaborated with artists Abbas Zahedi, Olu Ogunnaike, Sung Tieu, Aria Dean, and Maxime Bichon. From 2020 to 2021, he worked as a curator at Palais de Tokyo. He was previously exhibitions curator at Nottingham Contemporary (UK).

Yasmina Price is a New York–based writer and film programmer completing a PhD at Yale University. She focuses on anti-colonial cinema from the Global South and the work of visual artists across the African continent and diaspora, with a particular interest in the experimental work of women filmmakers. She has participated in public conversations and dialogues with filmmakers. Her curatorial work includes shorts programs at Anthology Film Archives and Light Industry, as well as longer series at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Pan African Film & Arts Festival. Recent writing has appeared in Lux Magazine, The Nation, Artforum, Film Quarterly, and Criterion.