Marion Slitine, a doctorate in anthropology from the EHESS (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in France), was awarded the 2020 Thesis Prize by the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac for her thesis titled « La Palestine en créations. La fabrique de l’art contemporain, des territoires occupés aux espaces mondialisés » (Palestine in Creations: The Making of Contemporary Art, from Occupied Territories to Global Spaces), under the guidance of Franck Mermier. Conducting a three-year ethnographic investigation in the occupied Palestinian territories, she focused her research on artistic circulation and engagements within the context of colonisation and globalisation unique to Palestine.

 

Since December 2020, she has been a postdoctoral researcher at the EHESS and the MUCEM in Marseille, exploring the connections between artistic practices, public space, and new forms of politics in the Arab world, with a specific focus on artistic utopias in Palestine and Morocco. In this context, she directed the issue of the journal “Ce que l’art fait à la ville dans le monde arabe” (Manazir Journal of the University of Geneva and Bern, 2022) and “Pratiques d’imagination et d’anticipation dans le monde arabe” (Horizons maghrébins, 2020). She recently contributed to the exhibition “Ce que la Palestine apporte au monde” (What Palestine Brings to the World) as an associate curator at the Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA), and the eponymous book published by Seuil. She is a member of the Hawaf collective, working on the Sahab Museum (Cloud Museum), a virtual museum for Gaza, currently presented in Mohamed Bourrouissa’s Signal exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo.