Camille Lévy Sarfati

Fellow
2025 - 2026

curating

Biography

Camille Lévy Sarfati is a curator and author, based in Tunis. Her research concerns the artistic practices of resistance and survivance of the Afro-Asian continents and their diasporas. She is currently working on directing a film about the experience of return, interrogating the (ethno)nationalist narratives linked to the Jewish history of Tunisia. Formerly director of 32bis in Tunis, she has worked with Kadist, Villa Medici, the Palais des Papes, and Selebe Yoon. Her recent projects include the first monographic exhibition of Miss.Tic (in Avignon) and collaborations with Thania Petersen, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Ismaïl Bahri, and Emné Nasereddine. She is the co-founder of the Tunisian collective Nessij.

Project

Her residency project aims to imagine and bring together a pluriversal assembly of women — artists, researchers, and activists — exploring the interactions between art, ritual, and politics through a counter-cartographic and counter-ethnographic approach. Her research focuses on rituals (and their artistic translations) as spaces of resistance and survival, tools of political struggle in the face of (national and nationalist) strategies of erasure and domination. This residency will be an opportunity to create the conditions for a space of collective thought and production, in the form of a range of activations: publication, meetings, performances, exhibition…

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