Clovis Maillet: contemporary works and medieval sources
Monday 19 May 2025 from 7pm to 8:30pm
Free upon registration
A discussion on composite imaginaries: contemporary works and medieval sources, with historian and researcher Clovis Maillet.
Medieval images and contemporary art are intertwined in aesthetic, spiritual and political terms.
Mark Leckey takes us in and out of his work ‘through medieval wounds’. The wounds of Job, Jesus Christ or Lydwine of Shiedam introduce divinity into bodies through infection and putrefaction. Vulvar wounds were already splitting Judy Chicago's plates to transport us into a post-patriarchal world, just as the beaver in Suzanne Husky's bestiary shows us the way to a post-capitalist world.
Through these and other examples, medieval historian and artist Clovis Maillet invites us to delve into a re-reading of the past in which gender, identity and spirituality are intertwined.
He has published La parenté hagiographique (2014), Les genres fluides (2020), Un Moyen âge émancipateur (with Thomas Golsenne, 2021) and Ecotransféminismes (with Emma Bigé, 2025). He has been performing, installing and making films since the early 2000s, with Louise Hervé and other artists. He co-wrote the show Medieval Crack with the Foulles collective.