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Paul Maheke
Fellow
null - null
Visual arts
Biographie
Paul Maheke (1985, France) lives and works in Montpellier. Through various forms and media, he pursues a long-term exploration of the ways in which marginalized bodies, narratives and histories are made visible and invisible. In his work, the artist summons ghosts and non-human beings to invite a reorientation of the way we are able to perceive. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, The Renaissance Society (Chicago), Mercer Union (Toronto), Performa (New York), Centre Pompidou and Palais de Tokyo (Paris), and Tate Modern, Baltic Triennial, Chisenhale Gallery and The South London Gallery (London).
Projet
His residency project, The shadows of the dead stand uprightis interested in the representation of marginalized people in the face of death, exploring funerary practices and post-mortem social violence. Combining ancient and contemporary history, from medieval Rome to the transatlantic slave trade, he questions how certain communities are maintained in a state of in-between – neither living nor dead. At Villa Medici, he will create a series of paintings and drawings of these upright recumbents, invisibilized figures of resistance, and explore the tensions between oblivion and commemoration, violence and reparation, visibility and invisibility.
The fellows
2024 - 2025
Open call fellows annual selection
Each year, the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici organizes an international competition to select fellows who will be welcomed at the Villa Medici in Rome for a 12-month residency in creation, experimentation and research (residency begins in September, ends in August).