French Morning was live this Thursday morning to talk about creation and cultural diplomacy, on the occasion of the opening of the Villa San Francisco.
Gaëtan Bruel, cultural advisor at the French Embassy in the United States, Mélanie Desliens Flint and Aude-Emilie Judaïque were the guests of this webinar, to talk about cultural creation. Gaëtan Bruel developed there French projects to open “villas”, artist residences on the model of the prestigious Villa Medicis in Rome, across the United States, and announced the next, in Chicago. Mélanie Desliens, member of the board of directors of Villa San Francisco, particularly insisted on the importance of public-private partnerships. And Aude-Emilie Judaïque, who will be one of the artists in residence, exhibited her immersive exhibition projects on the theme of the border, which she has been exploring for several years, but also on the question of artists’ engagement. . She defended the term “artist” to describe what she summed up with a quote from Stéphane Hessel: “to create is to resist, to resist is to create ”.
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