LATEST EXHIBITIONS

Diffracted Self with Younes Baba-Ali, Lucile Bertrand, Cathryn Boch and Michèle Magema

November 8, 2024

‘Diffracted Self’ at Irène Laub Gallery prompts a reflection on the stakes brought about by memory, identity, and exposure in a world stained by conflicts.

Antson’ ny tontolo miaina/Interpeller le vivant 1 & 2

October 18, 2024

Ce projet met en avant la capacité de l'art et de la culture à agir en faveur de l'environnement à Madagascar, les artistes choisis questionnent l'urgence climatique de Madagascar où la sagesse locale peut apporter des solutions adaptées.

A Dobradiça biennale 2, Mação, Portugal

July 3, 2023

La jeune biennale A Dobradiça – Encontros Contemporâneos, créée en 2021, se situe au carrefour des arts visuels et du débat d’idées. L’édition 2023 vise à combler le fossé entre l’évidence des catastrophes environnementales imminentes.

LATEST PUBLICATIONS

Interview between Shivanjani Lal and Cécile Bourne-Farrell

December 10, 2024

At the occasion of Arts Cabinet new editorial theme related to Migration, we commissioned Shivanjani Lal to collaborate with her artistic proposition 'Water is the Longest Separation' and I conducted an inspiring interview with the artist.

Elisa Moris Val, Bittersweet France

November 4, 2024

'Bittersweet France', follows the traces left by the massive arrival of sugar from colonised territories to hexagonal France at the times of slavery (1642-1848 for the official dates). What are the traces of it we have today around us? Our interview

'Once There Was and Once There Wasn’t', a project by Corinne Silva for Adobradiça Biennial, Mação, Portugal

October 18, 2024

This outdoor installation embodies the history, and decline, of industry in the region as well as the ways in which the land itself is harnessed in production.

"Make Your Poem" by Sylvie Blocher, Centre cardiologique du Nord, Saint-Denis

July 16, 2024

"Make Your Poem" is a collaborative and imaginative work by Sylvie Blocher commissioned by a group of caregivers from the CCN, accompanied by individuals working in audiovisual production.

Baptist Coelho, Attemps at resilience and empathy

October 5, 2023

At the occasion of Baptist Coelho residency at the Flanders Fields Museum, the artist produced a new work titled: 'Agar is dharti tay koyi jannat hai, o ay hi hay, ay hi hai, ay hi hai', from July to November 2022 a great book was published.

Jem Perucchini, painter of all potentials

April 25, 2023

"Jem Perucchini, peintre de tous les potentiels". Le jeune travail de l’artiste Jem Perucchini nous invite à appréhender sa peinture dans une certaine filiation de la peinture siennoise dont il s’inspire a gagné le Prix Jean-François Prat 2023!

BIOGRAPHY

Cécile Bourne-Farrell is an exhibition curator for public and private structures.

Since 2015, she is a fellow curator in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, and at Arts Cabinet, London.

Her curatorial projects focus on decolonial practices based on a curatorial ethos between artists, institutional and private infrastructures. Current curatorial projects include:

- ’Seas, Lands and Bodies Crossed’, April 28th. till May 21 @ La Traverse, Marseille with Malala Andrialavidrazana, Francis Alÿs, Shivanjani Lal, Louisa Marajo, Tuli Mekondjo, Otobong Nkanga and Jean-Paul Thibeau.

- 'Antson’ ny tontolo miaina/Interpeller le vivant', Antananarivo, Madagascar, May 20-June 5th., with Malala Andrialavidrazana, Cyrille Cornu, Andrée Ethève, Miora Rajaonary, Richiany Ratovo, a collaboration with Ihoby Rabarijohn, co-curator and

- A Dobradiça Biennale, Mação, Portugal, July 6th.-August 11th. 2023

- ‘Mapping Injury’, a UKRI Frontier Research Grant (Horizon Europe Guarantee) working with Vivienne Jabri in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.

Cécile Bourne-Farrell is a member of AICA, AWITA and CIMAM and writes regularly about contemporary artists.