Vit à : Paris
Marion Zilio is a theoretician, art critic and independent curator.
Doctor in Aesthetics, Science and Technology of Arts from the University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, she is the author of Faceworld. Le visage au 21e siècle (PUF, 2018). She was a lecturer at the University of Paris 8 in the Art, Philosophy and Aesthetics Department and a visiting professor at the Tehran School of Cinema, where she led a seminar on criticism and contemporary art.
She has participated in several scientific collective works, but also in monographs and exhibition catalogues. As an art critic, she regularly collaborates with specialized journals and has co-founded several experimental criticism spaces.
As a curator, she has organized exhibitions in France and abroad for galleries, art centres, foundations and institutions, including Le lieu unique in Nantes (2018), the B’Chira Art Center in Tunisia (2018), Bandjoun Station in Cameroon (2017), Villa Arson in Nice (2017), Le Carrousel du Louvre (2015)… In 2016, she was appointed Artistic Director of the Young International Art Fair, where she worked in dialogue with the Marais Culture + network (Picasso Museum, National Archives, Museum of Arts and Crafts, Maison européenne de la photographie, Musée Cognacq-Jay, Cité Internationale des Arts).
Member of the Board of AICA France (Secretary-General adjunct)
Member of the administrative board of C-E-A / Association française des commissaires d’exposition
Member of the editorial board of the journal of contemporary art criticism – Possible
November – December
– Format Cabine, à l’invitation de l’atelier Le Midi, Centre Tignous d’Art Contemporain, Montreuil.
Artists : Elvire Blanc Briand, Léa Dumayet, Gaëtan Kohler, Emanuele Ravagnani, Morgane Porcheron, Paul Sauviron, Pauline Toyer.
>> Format Cabine is a collective project built around the notion of travel and displacement. The artists, at the initiative of the exhibition, were awarded the François de Hatvany collective project grant in 2017, and shared the Atelier Le Midi, in Montreuil.
March – June
– Sortir de la guerre par la guerre, Victoire Thierrée, à l’invitation de Isabelle de Maison Rouge, Salon Turbulences.
>> The works selected by 8 art critics are presented online on a digital platform and IRL during meetings with the artist.
Victoire Thierrée developed an approach based on military survival strategies in hostile environments. His approach tends to recover the place of the human and the body through the aesthetic choices made by the army to go beyond the limits of the humain.
March 29-31
– . . ., exposition personnelle de Haythem Zakaria, L’Antichambre Acte I à l’invitation de Alta Volta, Hôtel de la Nouvelle République, Paris.
>> Neither a show nor an exhibition, this is l’Antichambre, an event dedicated to drawing and the extension of the gesture.
Haythem Zakaria’s metronome drawings blend into the setting of a hotel room, in a strident and captivating sound atmosphere. The artist’s gesture becomes an extension of the mechanical tool and the regular metric. Gradually, the brain becomes free and repetition becomes the expression of a moment of meditation.
May 4 – June 16
– Darkroom in Use, solo show de Matthieu Boucherit à la Galerie Valérie Delaunay, Paris.
>> By transforming the gallery into a laboratory, Matthieu Boucherit moves the darkroom to another level, not technical or economic, but clinical. The black box whose opaque operation is to be penetrated then concerns another device for processing perception and memory…
April 28 – June 16
– B l ob !, Galerie Bertrand Grimont, Paris.
Artists : Vincent Mauger, Nelson Pernisco, Victoire Thierrée, Anne-Charlotte Yver.
>> The blob is neither a fungus, nor a plant, nor an animal. He is not male or female, and has a choice between 221 sexes. The works have the character of the blob, without being an illustration of it. They come alive, while remaining inert, gently colonize surfaces, aiming to adapt to their environment to better understand or reconfigure it.
February 10 – 28
– Avant la poussière, à l’invitation du projet Under The Sand, Lieu unique, Nantes.
Artists : Minhee Kim, Amélie Labourdette, Dominique Leroy, Wilfried Nail, Pascale Rémita, Benoit Travers.
>> » Avant la poussière » follows the last cycle of residencies of the Under the Sand project. The rhythms of a residence in an unknown territory, eager to discover the realities buried under the sand, are followed by other logics of the gaze, other temporalities. Rather than exceptional remains, the traces and modest clues of a collective life are preferred.
November 17, 2017 – June 30, 2018
– Newwwar. It’s Just a Game?, Fondation Barthélémy Toguo, Bandjoun Station, Cameroun.
Artists : Léa Belooussovitch, Matthieu Boucherit, Thibault Brunet, Nidhal Chamekh, Wanko Cubart, Alexandre d’Huy, Harun Farocki, Omer Fast, Mounir Fatmi, Thierry Fournier, Hortense Gauthier, Alain Josseau, Annick Kamgang, Léa le Bricomte, Émeric Lhuisset, Gastineau Massamba, Wilfried Mbida, Alioum Moussa, Massinissa Selmani, Victoire Thierrée, Barthélémy Toguo, Aurélien Vret, Charlotte Yonga.
Avec une performance de Christian Etongo et Gabriella Badjeck.
>> « Newwwar. It’s just a Game? » takes as its starting point the complex apparatus that supports the visibility of war, making it an almost fictional device, where fantasy, play and the manipulation of affects reign.
3-17 November
– Curatorial résidency Newwwar. It’s just a Game, Bandjoun Sation, Cameroun.
September 29 – October 25
– Metaxu. Le séjour des formes, B’Chira Art Center, Tunis, Tunisie.
Pour le projet Under the Sand #3, à l’invitation de Souad Mani et de Wilfried Nail.
Co-curating Fatma Cheffi.
Artists : Imen Bahri, Minhee Kim, Farah Khelil, Amélie Labourdette, Souad Mani, Wilfried Nail, Pascale Rémita, Ali Tnani, Benoit Travers, Haythem Zakaria.
>> The Metaxu exhibition presented at the B’Chira Art Center follows the third residency organised by the Under The Sand project in Gafsa. It extends the issues of the first exhibition entitled Nucléus which was held in December 2016 in Nantes, during the return of the first part of the residencies.
11-24 May
– Résidence de création Under the Sand, Gafsa, Tunisie.
>> « Under the Sand » is a project of transdisciplinary artistic encounters with an international dimension that is long-term (2016 – 2018). The aim of this project is to enhance the value of the Gafsa territory located at the gateway to the Tunisian desert. It creates exchanges between Tunisian and French artists, through a series of residencies and exhibitions in Tunisia and France.
February 9 – April 30
– Go Canny! Poétique du sabotage, Villa Arson x La Station, en partenariat avec Le Dojo et le magazine culturel la Strada, Nice.
Co-curating Nathalie Desmet et Eric Mangion.
Artists : Emilien Adage, Cécile Babiole, Babi Badalov, Fayçal Baghriche, Stéphane Bérard, Jeanne Berbinau Aubry, Claude Cattelain, Marc Chevalier, Nicolas Daubanes, franckDavid, DeYi Studio, Amandine Ducrot, IKHÉA©SERVICES, Jean-Baptiste Ganne, Dora Garcia, Alexandre Gérard, Cari Gonzalez Casanova, Raychel Carrion Jaime, kom.post, Laurent Lacotte, Maxime Marion & Emilie Brout, Marie-Ève Mestre, Simon Nicaise, Hervé Paraponaris, Jérôme Pierre, Julien Prévieux, Marie Reinert, Michaël Sellam, Marine Semeria, Charles Stankievech, State of Sabotage (SoS), Thomas with Olivier, et Yann Vanderme.
Ainsi qu’une carte blanche proposée par DISNOVATION.ORG : Morehshin Allahyari & Daniel Rourke, Zach Blas, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Labomedia, Julian Oliver, Gordan Savicic et Danja Vasiliev
>> The exhibition « Go Canny! The Poetics of Sabotage » is conceived as a sabotage manual, a kind of direct action guide that offers visitors recipes for social change.
– PUBLIC POOL #2 « les objets ont la parole », « De Néandertal à Cyborg », conférence-performée avec Benjamin Efrita / Du Tamagotchi à Germinoid, Auditorium – Cité internationale des Arts de Paris, le 6 décembre.
March – October
– Direction artistique de la Young International ART FAIR, en collaboration avec le réseau Marais Culture + (Musée Picasso, Archives nationales, Musée des arts et métiers, Maison européenne de la photographie, le Carreau du Temple, Musée Cognacq-Jay, Cité Internationale des arts).
February 4th – March 28th
– TheSquareMeter, exposition personnelle de Luc Lapraye, Galerie Laure Roynette, Paris.
>> Questioning the art market, the exhibition « TheSquareMeter » mimics and undermines the laws of supply and demand. It offers the viewer an abyss of the commercial device and the psychological state of the collector.
Interrogeant le marché de l’art, l’exposition TheSquareMeter mime et mine les lois de l’offre et de la demande. Elle propose au spectateur une mise en abîme du dispositif marchand et de l’état psychologique du collectionneur.
October 23 – 25
– Générescences, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris.
Co-curating Julien Verhaeghe.
Artists : Barberot Sylvain, Jennifer Caubet, Charlotte Charbonnel, John Cornu, Boris Lafargue, Nicolas Momein, Aurélie Mourier, Thomas Tronel-Gauthier.
>> With « Générescence », the works invasively conquer space in order to reconfigure it. Spaciovores, they also work by mutual contamination.
September 24 – 27
– Cannibalisme Animalisme, appartement privé, Boulevard Malesherbes, Paris.
Co-curating Julien Verhaeghe.
Artists : Ghyslain Bertholon, AJ Dirtystein, Cécile Hug, Inès Kubler, Frédérique Loutz, Erik Nussbicker, Lionel Sabatté, Barthélémy Toguo, Valérie Vaubourg, Elodie Wysocki.
>> For « Cannibalism Animalime », the works are displayed alongside the furniture of a bourgeois apartment as well as the instruments of a medical practice. Immersed in a subdued atmosphere, they tell their own story of domestication, from room to room. Staged on the borderline between decorative and utilitarian, the works nevertheless exercise a critical perspective.