Eva Barois De Caevel

Eva Barois De Caevel (1989, France) is an independent curator, writer, and editor. Her areas of interest are feminism, post-colonial studies, the body and sexuality, critique of western centered art history and thus the renewal of writing and critical speech. She tries to do work "Always bearing in mind the power relations between continents, countries, people", and tries to transform them as soon as a small amount of power is taken. A graduate of the University of Paris Sorbonne IV in Art History, she is Assistant Curator for RAW Material Company and Coordinator of RAW Académie (Senegal); editor and consultant for the Institute for Human Activities (Congo, Netherlands, Belgium); and is a guest curator of the next edition of LagosPhoto Festival (October - November 2018, Nigeria). Eva is one of the founders of the international collective of curators Cartel de Kunst, created in 2012 and based in Paris. She was awarded the ICI Independent Vision Curatorial Award 2014, and has published many texts in exhibition catalogues and specialized journals. She recently curated the exhibition L’élargissement des fantasmes (March-April 2017, Maëlle Galerie, Paris) and Every Mask I Ever Loved (September - January 2018, ifa Galerie, Berlin). As a curator and researcher she has participated in a number of international conferences and seminars, at times reading her own texts, and notably at the National Institute of Art History in Paris, La Colonie in Paris, l’École des Beaux-Arts in Gand, during the Creative Time Summit 2016 in Washington, at the Akademie der Künste der Welt in Cologne, Bétonsalon in Paris, at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, The Sint Lucas University of Art and Design d’Anvers, FRAC Basse-Normandie in Caen, the University of  Paris Diderot, the Villa Médicis in Rome, Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette in Paris, and at WIELS in Bruxelles.