Discussions, readings, performances with Nour Awada, Émilie McDermott and Anne Le Troter.
Echoing Anne Le Troter’s exhibition “The Volunteers, pigment-medicine” around the health booklet, the artist invites Émilie McDermott and Nour Awada for a discussion, readings and performances traversing the genesis and issues of the project “[Re]production, thinking about motherhood in contemporary art”.
“[Re]production, thinking motherhood in contemporary art” is a research project conducted by Émilie McDermott and Nour Awada since 2020. Through this study on the impact of motherhood on the professional careers of women artists in France, the two artists are conducting a political and collective reflection on motherhood in contemporary art. How do women artists integrate motherhood into their artistic careers? What place does the art world, as a social and economic system, give to motherhood? Both artists and mothers, they first questioned together the triangle of motherhood/creation/career, before opening the research to new testimonies.
Nour Awada
Born in 1985 in Beirut, Nour Awada lives and works between Rome (IT) and Paris (FR). She graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2012 and founded LAP in 2018 – Laboratoire des Arts de la Performance. Her work has been presented at the François Schneider Foundation, the Francès Foundation, Mains d’Œuvres, the Palais de Tokyo, the Lafayette Anticipations Foundation, the French Institute in Milan and the International Triennial in Istanbul, among others.
Émilie McDermott
Émilie McDermott is a Franco-American artist who works between Besançon and Paris. She graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris Cergy in 2013. Her work has been shown at the Palais de Tokyo, the Traverse Vidéo festival in Toulouse, the Oeil d’Oodaaq festival in Rennes, the FRAC Franche Comté and the UrbanApa festival in Helsinki, where she worked from 2013 to 2015. She recently received a grant from the DRAC Bourgogne Franche-Comté for Homing, an olfactory installation project in progress.
The “[Re]production project” is supported by L’ahah and the Ministry of Culture’s Equality and Diversity mission.
