Carole Halimi

Carole Halimi
Period: 2013-2014
Profession: Art historian Carole Halimi has been a lecturer in contemporary art history at the Université de Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée since September 2012. She also holds an agrégation in visual arts and a doctorate in contemporary art history, having defended her thesis in 2011, under the supervision of Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, at the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne). This work, devoted to the tableau vivant and its contemporary aesthetics, was awarded the Musée d’Orsay’s ex-aequo prize in 2013. It is currently being published. Carole Halimi’s research focuses on intermediality, the performativity of images, performance art and, more broadly, the interaction between theater and the visual arts. Her project for the Villa Médicis is presented as a deepening of the research carried out in her thesis, and focuses more specifically on the field of performance, with the ambition of also being a field work, backed up by the artists’ discourse. The aim is to examine what questions the practice of tableau vivant poses for that of performance art, and how it can overturn its aesthetics and ideology. Central to this study, which will also draw on other examples, will be the performances of Italian artist Luigi Ontani, aptly entitled
tableaux vivants.