LATEST EXHIBITIONS

A Dobradiça biennale 2

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.
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’Mers, Terres & Corps traversés’

April 28, 2023
La Traverse, Marseille , April 28th. till May 21, with Malala Andrialavidrazana, Francis Alÿs, Shivanjani Lal, Louisa Marajo, Tuli Mekondjo, Otobong Nkanga and Jean-Paul Thibeau curated by Cécile Bourne-Farrell
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Corinne Silva, The Score (You and I both know)

February 7, 2023
Corinne Silva draws on years of research and practice in Bosnia and Herzegovina to present this new series of works exploring the consequences of the Bosnian War on bodies, landscapes and memory, as well as the remarkable resilience and solidarity.
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LATEST PUBLICATIONS

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!
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Interview Corinne Silva and Cécile Bourne-Farrell
January 3, 2023
An Interview between the artist Corinne Silva and Cécile Bourne-Farrell about The Score(You and I Both Know) curated by Cécile Bourne-Farrell and Professor Vivienne Jabri, The Arcade, King’s College London, 7 February – 3 March 2023.
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An interview with Abtin Sarabi
December 22, 2022
Interview avec l'auteur du film ‘Parcelles 57’ (28mn) réalisé en 2020 par Abtin Sarabin suite à un appel à projets de films documentaires au Sénégal. Ce projet parle de la canne à sucre et comment le sucre en est extrait et exploité.
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L’inattendu du Tout Monde, un hommage à Goddy Leye
November 3, 2022
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Ex-Libris, une Balade Sonore au coeur du Langage, autour d'une oeuvre de Joseph Kosuth
September 22, 2022
EX-LIBRIS, UNE BALADE SONORE AU CŒUR DU LANGAGE MERCREDI 28 SEPTEMBRE — 20H PLACE DES ÉCRITURES — FIGEAC RENCONTRE ET ÉCOUTE AUTOUR DE L’ŒUVRE DE JOSEPH KOSUTH.
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Europa Oxalá
September 3, 2022
This exhibition presents around 60 works by 21 artists with family backgrounds originating in the former colonies in Africa. Born and raised in a post-colonial context, these are artists who became essential in European contemporary art.
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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.