Events
Portrait of Violaine Le Fur in traditional Bamiléké dress, © Solange Ndomkeu Yoke
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.
On the invitation by AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions, Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care imagined “Care as Methodology”, a series of events that aim to practice and reflect collectively on intersections of care and art. For the third event, artist Violaine Le Fur will offer individual healing sessions and screen an autobiographical film she made in 2018.
As a follow-up to an event held in December, the Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care invites multidisciplinary artist Violaine Le Fur to offer a series of individual energy healing sessions. This gathering is part of a broader exploration of practices at the crossroads of art and care. On this occasion, the artist will present her autobiographical documentary film, À l’Ouest (23 min, color, 2018). The film retraces her personal journey, from her birth in France to her reconciliation with Cameroon, her father’s country of origin. By exploring her bicultural identity—moving from a youth marked by a loss of bearings to adeep need to reconnect with an unfamiliar part of herself—À l’Ouest takes shape as a healing object, conveyed through the language of cinema.
Practical information
Tuesday, February 18, 2025, from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Screening: 2:00-6:00 pm
Healing sessions: 2:00-5:00 pm
Free healing sessions within the limit of available spots. RSVP required at the following address: [email protected]
Violaine Le Fur develops an artistic practice enriched by travel and encounters, exploring the therapeutic dimension of art. She creates films, composes music, and offers energy healing sessions based on magnetism. Deeply attuned to the issues of care and transmission, she founded the Yoke collective, which helps unite a diasporic, international, and supportive artistic community.
The Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care, started in 2020 in the Greater Paris region, is a diverse group of practitioners of arts, crafts, philosophies, healing and therapy coming from vastly spread geographies. Neither a classical collective nor a rigid structure, the Initiative is researching and reinventing modes of sustainable institutionalism. Based on friendships as well as professional bonds, it functions as an ecosystem and fosters interdependence and solidarity beyond identity. The focus on care is enacted as a flow of activities that nurture individuals and sustain social, environmental and political bonds, focusing as much on processes and methods as on outcomes. Through fluid artistic and curatorial ventures, the Initiative embraces the languages, energies, histories, landscapes, bodies, and materials that reflect a non-extractive and sensitive relationship to the human and non-human alike.
