Amélie Durand

Amélie Durand, born in 1988, is a poet. Since childhood, she has been herself, but also many others: her sister, the florist, the police, the Lac du Salagou. Sometimes this amuses her, sometimes it depresses her. Refractory to all forms of education, she was nevertheless forced by her aunt Sidonie to take finance and ballistics classes at the Philippe Cadique elementary school in the Gard region. She was expelled at the age of seven for inventing the plasma slingshot with her classmates in CE1. From then on, she wrote her sonnets in the pure spirit of revenge Portrait © Andrea Bresciani

 

In residence at Villa Medici, Amélie Durand will continue her work of poetic sabotage based on Nadine de Rothschild’s manuals of etiquette.