Myriam Bahaffou

Myriam Bahaffou

Guest artist
03.11.2024 - 16.11.2024

Medici Residency

Biography

Myriam Bahaffou is a doctoral student in feminist philosophy (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Centre Universitaire de Recherches sur l’Action Publique et le Politique – CURAPP, and Unicerity of Ottawa), an ecofeminist activist, an aquaphile fascinated by echinoderms, a joyful antispeciesist and an outspoken eropolitician. Her work takes an intersectional approach to antispeciesism, focusing on the dynamics of animalisation and humanisation of racial minorities. Her book “Des Paillettes sur le compost, écoféminismes au quotidien” was published by Le passager clandestin in 2022.

Project

Her residency project involves writing her next book (to be published in March 2025), provisionally entitled ” Eropolitique “. The aim is to revive old debates about the place of eroticism and pleasure in struggles, by placing them in the context of ecological, decolonial and queer thinking. Eropolitics is thus a radical opening onto the world and the promotion of the proliferation of life in all its forms, rather than the injunction to individual fulfillment that pleasure-capitalism has hammered into us. Finally, eropolitics reminds us that the desiring power of individuals and groups is the driving force behind all revolutionary action.

Publication at Villa Medici

Medici Residency

Application 01.01 - 29.02.2024

Throughout the year, the French Academy in Rome welcomes artists, authors and researchers from all disciplines to carry out a specific creative or research project as part of the "Medici Residency" program. These residencies are not part of the annual residents' competition. They are short residencies aimed at carrying out a specific research or creative project. The next call is for residencies for the first half of 2025, lasting from 2 weeks to 2 months, from January to June 2025.

I love you
I sign up

Get all the latest news from Villa Medici