As part of the Marie-Solanges Apollon residency, researcher-in-residence Jerry Philogene will present her research on the Haitian modernist painter Luce Turnier on July 3, in conversation with historian in American and African American Studies and Associate Professor, Sarah Fila-Bakabadio whose research focuses on Black intellectual and cultural history and the visual representations of the Black body and Black beauty.

Their conversation will explore global Black modernist art that is sufficiently epistemologically capacious to allow for transatlantic and transcultural creative practices.

Some of the questions that animate Professor Philogene’s research project are: What would it mean to study a known yet under-recognized transnational, Haitian modernist woman painter and collagist of the mid- to late twentieth-century arts of the African diaspora? What would it mean to write about a particular formative moment that goes against the well-documented and conventional masculinist narrative of an art history? What might be some of the art historical implications of a narrative that not only includes women, but centers them? What is at stake in an inquiry to articulate the artwork of a figure like Turnier, a transnational Black Haitian woman who studied in New York and Paris in the 1950s?

Practical information

Wednesday, July 3, 2024, from 6:30 to 8:00 pm

Villa Vassilieff
21, avenue du Maine
75015 Paris