Clovis Maillet

Clovis Maillet (1981, France) has published La parenté hagiographique (2014) and Les genres fluides (2020). He has edited several issues of scientific journals while conducting research into the uses of history in contemporary art(Witch TV, 2021; Un Moyen âge émancipateur, with Thomas Golsenne, 2021). Clovis Maillet and Louise Hervé have been working in performance, installation and film since the early 2000s. They have published Attraction Étrange, 2013, Spectacles sans objet, 2015 and L’Iguane, 2018. Clovis Maillet co-wrote the show Medieval Crack with the Foulles collective.

Her residency project invites us to think, starting from a specific mourning (the death of a mother crushed by antifeminism and dissolved in the water of a river), about a historical condition (that of women and gender minorities who think about violence and live with the dead). The project unfolds in three political moments. Fare l’amore tutte le volte che si vuole is inspired by the Movimento di Lotta Femminile’s struggle for sexual and contraceptive freedom in the 70s. Il lavoro di riproduzione evokes the 80s, anti-feminism, and domestic violence. La ricostruzione is the re-emergence of feminism, illuminated by trans studies and community mourning.