Laure Limongi

Laure Limongi (France, 1976) is developing a transdisciplinary body of work weaving links with music, performance and the visual arts, as well as history and science. Laure Limongi’s predilection for inquiry, words, expression and language is expressed through a variety of artistic gestures. She writes books – novels, documentary fiction, essays, poetry – and stages them in the form of performed lectures. Her most recently published works include the diptych Ton cœur a la forme d’une île and On ne peut pas tenir la mer entre ses mains (Grasset, 2019 and 2021), and the collection J’ai conjugué ce verbe pour marcher sur ton cœur (L’Attente, 2020). A fan of collective odysseys, Laure Limongi develops artistic collaborations and teaches creative writing at the École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy, after having been a publisher for some fifteen years and co-directing the Master de création littéraire in Le Havre.

As part of her residency at Villa Médicis, Laure Limongi is developing the Le Service des Panacées project, built around three proposals between writing and performance. Through the misappropriation of medical tools and symbols, Laure Limongi intends to propose participatory performances whose purpose will be to prescribe books. In public or in private consultation, one or more books, with their dosage, will be proposed in response to a statement of “disorder”. At the same time, Laure Limongi will write a novel embodying this approach – the book as panacea – and set in medieval Italy at the heart of the School of Salerno. These three gestures (performance, writing a novel, classification) respond to the desire to propose a form that rethinks chronology by building on exchange, living matter, Italian history, the palimpsest… because what better way than a book to extricate oneself from the tyranny of temporality?