Dorothée Dupuis

Born in Paris in 1980, Dorothée Dupuis is a curator, art critic and publisher of contemporary art. Her practice focuses on the intersection between art and politics, seen from transfeminist, post-Marxist, decolonial and anti-racist perspectives. Since 2013, she has been the director and founder of Terremoto magazine and Temblores Publicaciones publishing house, based in Mexico City. Before moving to Mexico in 2012, she was director of the Triangle-Astérides contemporary art and residency center in Marseille from 2007 to 2012, and assistant curator at the Centre Pompidou from 2005 to 2007. Since 2012, Dorothée Dupuis has worked as an independent curator, writing about the art of the Americas for Terremoto and international publications.

 

Her research project at Villa Medici is entitled “PERSPECTIVES REBELLES. L’exercice curatorial féministe en institution dans le temps présent à la lumière des féminismes italiens des années 70”. Since 2019, Dorothée Dupuis has been pursuing a phase of theoretical research and writing on a curatorial format that she has been practicing since the beginning of her curatorial career: the exhibition of women artists, seen from the field of curatorial studies. This research is an immersion in the project that has animated feminists in the Western art world since the 1970s, according to which there is a debt owed to women artists, which the exhibition of women artists could somehow “pay off”. At Villa Medici, she wishes to use the legacy of Italian feminism of the 1970s revisited in our contemporary times as the theoretical, affective and conceptual framework to advance the writing of the book Paying the debt: the exhibition of women artists as provocation.