Occitanie
Co-founder of the platform Afrique in visu, Jeanne Mercier has been a curator and critic since 2006, based between Europe and Africa. For the past 15 years, she has focused on the evolution of the practice of the expanded image, photography, video and installation. She is particularly interested in works that convey counter-narratives, create new imaginary worlds emancipated from imposed schemas, dominant cultures and iconographies. Her last exhibition projects intertwined history, personal genealogies, family traditions, resistance and struggles against all forms of power and oppression. Through personal and collective curatorships, she has recently collaborated with numerous artists and several festivals and institutions in France and abroad : Jeu de Paume Lab, ENSAD Paris, Le 18 in Marrakech, the ICI (Institute of Islamic Cultures) in Paris, Fotofestiwal in Lodz, Kerkennah Festival in Tunisia, the Zinsou Foundation in Benin, the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL) in Morocco with the exhibition acclaimed “Africa is no island”. She regularly writes for the art press and various books, such as Une Histoire Mondiale des Femmes Photographes (ed. Textuel, 2020) and “Being photographer in Africa, 10 years of Afrique in visu” (ed. Clémentine de la Féronnière, 2017).