Julie Sissia

Julie Sissia (1984, France) holds a doctorate in art history from Sciences Po-Paris and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and is scientific project manager of the Franco-German research fund on the provenance of cultural goods from sub-Saharan Africa at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin. She is co-initiator with Margareta von Oswald (Humbold-Universität Berlin) of the Académie des Traces, a collective project bringing together 8 researchers, heritage professionals and experts in the field of cultural cooperation: Felicity Bodenstein, Damiana Otoiu, Anna Seiderer, Mathieu Fribault, Franck Pacéré, Honoré Tchatchouang.

Her project at Villa Medici

The Académie des Traces ambitions to better understand the major societal challenge represented by the colonial collections held in Western museums, and which are inextricably linked to a plurality of memories that are always sensitive and often painful. The Académie des Traces proposes to discuss the various areas of museum work relating to colonial collections: provenance research, questions of restitution, exhibition, artistic creation and mediation, as well as the policy of generating collections and archives.

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