Within the framework of the exhibition cycle Collective dreams?, AWARE welcomes the roundtable discussion How do we learn to find each other? Part II, organized by curator Noelia Portela. Moderated by Clara Schulmann, the discussion will bring together artists Tania Gheerbrant, Laura Huertas Millán, Chloé Quenum, Caroline Reveillaud & Isadora Soares Belletti to discuss their work, their practice, and their collective experiences in the field of contemporary art.

Starting at 4pm with a screening of a selection of video works by the invited artists, the roundtable discussion will begin at 6pm.

Practical information

Friday 29 September 2023
Film screening: 4pm
Talk: 6pm

Villa Vassilieff
21, avenue du Maine, 75015 Paris

Free entry.

Screening programme

Tania Gheerbrant
Twin in the clouds and other stories, 2023
Video HD, one channel, color, stereo sound
12′

Laura Huertas Millán
jeny303, 2018
Video, 16mm
7′

Isadora Soares Belletti
Waiting for Julio, 2023
Video HD, one channel, color, stereo sound
16’11″

Caroline Reveillaud
Glitch, 2022
Video H, color and stereo sound
13’10″

Chloé Quenum
UP, 2018, part of the installation Le Sceau de Salomon, 2018
Video, HD, one channel, color, stereo sound
1’55”

Noelia Portela is an independent curator, cultural administrator and educator based in Paris. She studied at the Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Her experience in the field of design has given her an exacting sense of aesthetic precision that informs her curatorial projects. Noelia has held various positions in galleries, arts organizations and contemporary art fairs, notably in New Zealand, Europe and the UK, including Enjoy Public Art Gallery, PeterMcLeavy Gallery, AFA Chile for Feria Ch.Aco, VENICE DESIGN and most recently 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair. She writes regularly for magazines including Artishock Magazine and Relieve Contemporaneo. In 2017, she founded Persona Curada, a curatorial project that promotes contemporary Latin American art in conversation with the French art scene. For the past 5 years, the project has been run on a voluntary basis by Noelia Portela and the entire team.

Clara Schulmann has been writing for over ten years and she currently teaches theory in art schools. At the Beaux-Arts de Paris, her seminar Les Fileuses focuses on storytelling. She regularly collaborates with artists. In 2020, she published Zizanies (Paraguay Press), a first-person narrative in which these collaborations hold a special place. Since January 2022, she has hosted a live radio program with Thomas Boutoux, En déplacement, from the Jocelyn Wolff gallery in Romainville, an ongoing investigation into the bifurcations of the art world, among others.