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In 2020, we founded the curatorial duo CRO. Through the hybridization of technology and the living, we explore our mutant worlds, from a molecular level to our socio-cultural constructs.
Our projects take the form of an interactive, multi-sensory ecosystem, calling on image, sound, texture and smell. Integrating our digital and physical living spaces, we disseminate these projects from the exhibition space to the teenage blogspot, from the paper of a magazine to the soundwaves of a podcast.
We are currently working on several group shows: And the wasp entered the fig, at Spiaggia Libera, Paris (2024), and I cried at the end of a manga. Chapter 2 at Le Château Centre d'Art Contemporain d'Aubenas (November 2024).
Among our recent projects: The Techno-Vernacular Wave (part 1+2), an essay published in the magazine 02 (n°105-106), on the reassertion of vernacular knowledge in the technological and digital age; SENSATION, our podcast on Radio Poush taking the form of a sensorial portrait of our guests.
Félicien Grand d'Esnon (b. 1996)
Alexis Loisel-Montambaux (b. 1995)
I am an independent curator. After several experiences in France and abroad (Hayward Gallery, Collezione Peggy Guggenheim, Collection Lambert), I was exhibition and editorial projects assistant at the Fondation Carmignac (2022-2023), where I was involved in the preparation of exhibitions and catalogs - Le Songe d'Ulysse (2022) and L'île intérieure (2023) - as well as exhibitions for the Carmignac Photojournalism Award in Paris, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, and touring throughout Democratic Republic of Congo.
I completed a BA in History at King's College London, followed by an MA in Curation at the Courtauld Institute of Art. My BA thesis focused on the diasporic mechanisms of dub and reggae in England, and my MA on the use of popular music in modern and contemporary art museums.
My sensibilities are rooted in globalized popular culture and the communities it spawns, from anime meme pages to the new political cultures of the techno scene.
I work as part of the curatorial team at MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain, where I assist the curators in the production of exhibitions and catalogs, including Ana Mendieta. Search for Origin and Huma Bhabha. A Fly Appeared and Disappeared (2023).
I previously worked at the Fonds d'art contemporain - Paris Collections (2020-2023) on collection management, research and loans, and as a rapporteur to the acquisition committees.
After studying art history and law (La Sorbonne, Panthéon-Assas, Lyon 3), I completed a double master's degree in cultural management (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, ESCP Business School Paris). My dissertation focused on audience engagement and development strategies in contemporary art biennials.
I have a particular sensibility for interdisciplinary and transmedia creations, including moving images, organic matter, haptic, inhalable and ingestible substances.
cro.curatorial.research[at]gmail.com
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