Léa Toulouse Florentin has worked in the arts for over ten years in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. She obtained a Masters in Critical and Curatorial Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and First Nations Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She worked in museums, galleries, universities, and start-ups to develop her career in the art market all over the world. One of her accomplishments was to curate an exhibition at Winsor Gallery in Vancouver, Canada, featuring six contemporary First Nations women artists with a focus on Indigenous matriarchy, also the subject of her academic research. Today she works directly within the art market in the world of online contemporary art sales in Paris.
Conference : How to build a Native American art exhibition?
June 30, 2022 - 11.30AM at Sorbonne University Pierre and Marie Curie Campus.
The aim of this talk is to illustrate, in detail, each part of the process of mounting an exhibition with a focus on Indigenous contemporary art as the subject. Starting with the initial concept, to the research and development of an exhibition. Through the work of the artists featured in my research and my selection of accompanying postcolonial scholarship I hope to raise questions about the role of Indigenous women in decolonization and self-determination, and the discourses surrounding these theories and praxes in a contemporary context. This will be carried out by looking at the artists through a particular framework that consists firstly of a matriarchal and sovereign lens, secondly through cultural resurgence, and thirdly through the act of art and exhibition creation as a political performance. The exhibition process, from start to finish, plays an integral role in the construction of an exhibition and the way the content is portrayed.