Literature - Medici Residency

Léa Chauvel-Lévy

Léa Chauvel-Lévy

10/04/2023 / 23/04/2023

Start of residency 10/04/2023
End of residency 23/04/2023

After studying political and ethical philosophy at the Sorbonne and then at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales (EHESS), Léa Chauvel-Lévy is the director of the LVMH Métiers d’Art residencies, publication director and independent exhibition curator. She is also a writer, with a first novel, Simone, published by Editions de l’Observatoire in August 2021. Her second novel will be published in February 2024 by Editions JCLattès. Her first documentary for France TV is on Botticelli’s Birth of Venus in popular culture and will be broadcast shortly.

Project at Villa Medici :

Léa Chauvel-Lévy is preparing her second novel to be published by Editions JCLattès in 2024. It deals with filiation and fatherhood, seen through the eyes of a lost but determined woman. The narrator, following a traumatic event, is led to question her origin. This novel, « Une demande folle », is a plunge into the heart of a matrix, that of a woman who, approaching forty, understands everything about her childhood. She examines her relationship with her father and this traumatic event and reconnects with him, even if it means falling into a state of limbo.