Events
Image: A detail from the photomontage for the final chapter (Chapter IX, entitled I. O. U.) of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore’s Cancelled Confessions [Aveux non avenus] (Paris: Éditions du Carrefour, 1930).
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.
As a part of the residency program for Research on Women and Non-Binary Photographers and Video Artists, researcher-in-residence Amelia Groom will present work-in-progress on Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore on March 10 in conversation with writer and filmmaker Juliet Jacques.
Amelia Groom and Juliet Jacques will discuss the artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, queer icons who lived near the Villa Vassilieff in Montparnasse during the 1920s and 1930s. Jacques will revisit her 2016 text Sertraline Surrealism: After Claude Cahun while Groom will share work-in-progress from a forthcoming essay for the AWARE website. This event also marks the occasion of Susan de Muth’s recently republished English translation of the “anti-memoir” Cancelled Confessions [Aveux non Avenus] (1930) – for which Groom wrote a new introduction. Starting from Cahun’s refusal (or inability) to offer a straightforward memoir, Jacques and Groom will consider the ongoing resonance of the artist’s desire to “cancel” the confessional mode – and to mess with expectations for the reproduction of legible, authentic, and individuated selfhood.
Practical information
Monday, March 10, 2025, at 6.30 pm
Free entry.
The conversation will be held in English.
Amelia Groom is a writer and art historian based in Amsterdam. Recent publications include texts on Sergei Eisenstein’s sex drawings, Mariah Carey’s refusal to acknowledge linear time, and Beverly Buchanan’s sculptural ruinations, among other topics. As a researcher in residence at AWARE, Groom is currently at work on a book that looks at Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore through the lenses of queer and trans ecologies.
Juliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker based in London. She has published six books, including Trans: A Memoir (2015), Variations (2021) and The Woman in the Portrait (2024). Her fiction, journalism and essays have appeared in numerous publications, and her short films have screened across the world. She teaches at the Royal College of Art and elsewhere.
