Events
From left to right: Chemin du Montparnasse, Photo: Margot Montigny; Clouds, Photo: Mary Ralphs; Design by Lisa Sturacci studio, © AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions
Address
Villa Vassilieff
21, avenue du Maine
75015 Paris
21, avenue du Maine
75015 Paris
Accessibility
Montparnasse – Bienvenüe metro station, Exit 2, Lines 4, 6, 12 and 13
Villa Vassilieff is accessible to visitors using wheeled devices or who have mobility difficulties thanks to special facilities (access ramp, adapted toilets, and a lift).
In addition, several reserved parking spaces are available close to the Villa Vassilieff:
• in front of 4 rue d’Alençon, 75015 Paris
• in front of 7 rue Antoine Bourdelle, 75015 Paris
• in front of 23 rue de l’Arrivée, 75015 Paris
Consult the map of adapted parking spaces in Paris here.
You are invited to join and participate in our upcoming event: an activated roundtable with the participation of curator and scholar Claire Tancons, sound artist and writer, Jamika Ajalon and AWARE’s researcher-in-residence Clare Patrick, followed by a sonic anti-lecture by Jamika Ajalon. This event serves as an extension of Clare Patrick’s residency as the current Marie-Solanges Apollon laureate, deepening her ongoing inquiry into moments of exchange and collaboration through the transient qualities of collective gatherings—such as music, ephemera, and dance.
Patrick’s project reflects on the underacknowledged presence of Adrienne Fidelin as a key contributor and collaborator in Paris, both within interwar Surrealist circles and broader networks. Through engaged dialogues, archival work, and collaborative experiments, her inquiry on this subject keenly engages the interplay of movement, influence, alliance, and necessary or impelled opacity as critical methodologies for navigating diasporic encounters. Conceived as a multi-sensory, interactive meeting, this conversation aims to expand on continuing discussions of transnational interactions and reverberations across the Black Atlantic.
Practical information
Thursday, July 3, 2025, from 6:00 pm
Free admission with registration here
The event will be held in English
Clare Patrick was born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa. Her practice has unfolded in her home county, the UK, France, Ireland, the US, and Morocco. In 2023/24, she was a Curatorial Fellow at NXTHVN in New Haven. She previously held curatorial positions at the Norval Foundation in Cape Town, and in the UK at mother’s tankstation and The Lightbox. C. Patrick has lectured histories of photography at the Paris College of Art and supports programme development for L’AiR Arts Association. As Art Director for No! Wahala Magazine, she hopes to support the broadening ideas around contemporary African photography.
Jamika Ajalon is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and lecturer whose work spans literature, music, film, and digital arts. Her recent projects include Skye Papers Panoptic, an anti-lecture exploring surveillance culture and memory, presented at the St. Étienne Biennale (France) and UCLA (USA). In 2025, Jamika was invited to work with Arte Tracks, and she continues to tour with Baldwin in Transit, a jazz-poetry ensemble dedicated to James Baldwin’s legacy. In 2024, her work was showcased at the Strasbourg Jazz Festival, Dyke Hands (London), and the Scores of Narratives Festival (Belgium). She contributed as vocalist and interpreter to Of Mud and Men, a collaboration with Ali Cherri at the 2022 Venice Biennale. She has participated in numerous international residencies, including the Dou Dou Records Writers Residency (Ariège, France), Afrikadaa Sound Waves Residency (Paris), Hosek Contemporary (Berlin), and Picardie Forever (France), where she developed sound design for Radio Whales.
Claire Tancons is a curator, researcher and art critic, working in Paris and internationally. Her career is rooted in the investigation of postcolonial art at the crossroads of performance and ritual in their collective and political dimensions. She studied at the École du Louvre (France), the Courtauld Institute (London) and the Whitney Museum (New York), and has contributed to numerous international biennales (Prospect.1, Gwangju, Cape Town, Göteborg, Sharjah 14) and institutions globally, such as Tate Modern, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Faena Art and the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. She has taught as a guest professor at IUAV Venice, the City University of New York and the School of Visual Arts. New York, and regularly publishes in exhibition catalogues (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2024) and edited collections (Sternberg 2024). C. Tancons has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, from institutions such as the Andy Warhol Foundation, Creative Capital, and the Ford Foundation among others. She was the Artistic Director of Nuit Blanche 2024, and her current project, Van Lévé: Visions Souveraines des Amériques et de l’Amazonie Créoles et Maronnes, is supported by the Ford Foundation.
