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Hybridizing the Christian story
13.11 - 14.11.2025
- Participants
- Vir Andres Hera
- Victor Barabino
- Dario Biancullo
- Raphaël Bories
- Patrick Boucheron
- Elise Haddad
- Amalia Laurent
- Adrian Paci
- Study days organized by
- Clovis Maillet
- Nicolas Sarzeaud
On the occasion of the exhibition Shared Holy Places exhibition at Villa Médicis, Clovis Maillet and Nicolas Sarzeaud, residents at Villa Médicis from 2024-2025, have devised two study days designed to highlight the sharing of narratives between different cultural spheres.
These days will focus on the Christian story: as the bearer of a universal vocation, the Church has sought to spread its message as widely as possible. This desire for expansion has led to forms of cultural hybridization – sometimes controlled, often unforeseen – that still nourish contemporary creation today.
By combining scientific research and artistic practices, these meetings offer a journey through a Christianity in transformation, at the crossroads of multiple influences.
November 13 study day
Thursday, 13 November, 2:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
2:30 p.m. Introduction (Clovis Maillet and Nicolas Sarzeaud)
2:45 p.m. Raphaël Bories (curator at Mucem, co-curator of the exhibition) x Alessandro Gallicchio (director of the art history department at Villa Medici) x Adrian Paci (artist) on Christian legends of architectural and pictorial journeys from the Balkans to Italy (Loreto, Genazzano)
Screening of Adrian Paci’s film pilgrImage
Discussion with Alessandro Gallicchio and Adrian Paci
Lecture by Raphaël Bories
3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Break
4:00 p.m. Discussion Elise Haddad (EHESS-CRH) x Vir Andres Hera (artist) on the hybridisation of Christian narratives in the context of the colonisation of Mexico
4:45 p.m. Closing speech
6:00 p.m. Screening of Andrea Fortis’ film Femmenell (2024) 73′ followed by a discussion with the director
November 14 study day
Friday, 14 November, 3:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m. Introduction by Clovis Maillet and Nicolas Sarzeaud
3:15 p.m. Lecture by Victor Barabino (University of Lorraine) on the links between mythology and hagiography in the medieval Scandinavian world
3:45 p.m. Discussion with Clovis Maillet and Dario Biancullo on the sexual difference liberation movement and the rituals of the Femminielle linked to the Virgin of Montevergine (Campania)
6:00 p.m. Discussion between Patrick Boucheron (Collège de France) and Amalia Laurent (artist) on the appropriation of ritual sites by contemporary art, based on the example of her performance at the Sainte-Chapelle
Practical information
Thursday November 13
14h30 – 17h30
Cinema room at the Villa Medici
French & Italian
Friday November 14
15h00 – 20h00
Grand Salon of the Villa Medici
French & Italian
Free of charge: online reservation
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.
Nicolas Sarzeaud
Nicolas Sarzeaud (1992, France), is a graduate of the École du Louvre and holds a doctorate from the EHESS, and is an associate member of the Centre de Recherche Historique and FRS-FNRS research fellow at the Université catholique de Louvain. In 2021, he defended a thesis on the cult of the Shrouds of Christ between the 14th and 16th centuries, published by Cerf in 2024 under the title Les Suaires du Christ en Occident. He has taught at the Université Lumière Lyon II and the Université de Lorraine, and has published numerous articles on the cult of images in the late Middle Ages, and the way they were shown, viewed and disseminated thanks to an intense production of copies, which he places in a long history of facsimiles.
