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Marie Deparis-Yafil
Art critic, Independent curator
http://mariedeparis-yafil.over-blog.com
French, English
Specialty: Multidisciplinary
Marie Deparis-Yafil has been an art critic (member of AICA) and curator for almost twenty years. She exhibits and collaborates with numerous artists, from the most emerging to the most internationally recognized. She has published texts in nearly eighty books, reviews, exhibition catalogs and monographic works, in France and abroad, and staged over forty solo and group exhibitions in art centers, museums and heritage sites in France, Algeria, Tunisia, Senegal (Biennale de Dakar, 2018), the UK, Greece and soon Spain (Biennalsur, 2023). She has regularly collaborated with the Centre des Monuments Nationaux, notably curating two exhibitions at the Monastère Royal de Brou between 2013 and 2016 (Bourg-en-Bresse, France) and curating the first exhibition of contemporary art in Europe's largest medieval monument (Château de Vincennes, "Noir Eclair", Zevs, 2016). She also curated the most important monographic exhibition of contemporary art in Algeria ("Gravity3", Sadek Rahim , Musée National d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Oran, 2019) and the first tribute exhibition to Christian Boltanski ("Les Regards. Les Esprits", Mémorial de la Shoah, 2022). She is currently initiating a program of contemporary art exhibitions at the Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris (Christian Boltanski, October 2022; Adel Abdessemed, April-May 2023, Melik Ohanian, June 2023).
