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Camille Lévy Sarfati
Fellow
2025 - 2026
curating
Biography
Project
Her residency project aims to imagine and bring together a pluriversal assembly of women — artists, researchers, and activists — exploring the interactions between art, ritual, and politics through a counter-cartographic and counter-ethnographic approach. Her research focuses on rituals (and their artistic translations) as spaces of resistance and survival, tools of political struggle in the face of (national and nationalist) strategies of erasure and domination. This residency will be an opportunity to create the conditions for a space of collective thought and production, in the form of a range of activations: publication, meetings, performances, exhibition…
Assemblée
What do these tirelessly repeated gestures, breaths, songs, and prayers tell us? What do our rituals convey—in the face of policies of erasure, injustice, and pain? Assemblée is a traveling artistic, political, and community manifestation whose inaugural edition took place at Villa Medici in April 2026, at the invitation of Camille Lévy Sarfati (2025–2026 fellow). It brings together artists, thinkers, and organizers in affinity spaces to explore the interactions between ritual, art, and politics—a way to celebrate and mobilize the narrative, creative, political, and emotional power of the rituals that inhabit us.
Assemblée is being built over the long term as a fluid and organic space for learning, sharing knowledge and skills, critical reflection, and collective creation directed toward...
At Villa Medici
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Fellows
2025 - 2026
Open call fellows annual selection
Application 04.09 - 16.10.2026
Each year, the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici organizes an international competition to select fellows who will be welcomed at the Villa Medici in Rome for a 12-month residency in creation, experimentation and research (residency begins in September, ends in August).