For the second year running, FRAME is partnering with Sorbonne Nouvelle University for a panel discussion devoted to contemporary Black visual artists.

The first edition, organized in June 2024 by the Center for Research on the English-speaking World (CREW), brought together curator Valerie Cassel Oliver (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, a FRAME member) and artists Glenn Ligon and Emo de Meideros.

Committed to promoting the plurality of artistic expressions in French and American museums and reflecting on the meaning of contemporary creation in changing contexts, this year’s conversation will welcome artists Hank Willis Thomas and Raphaël Barontini to discuss their respective commitments and individual artistic practices in tune with the times.

They will be joined by several members of the contemporary museum scene: Rujeko Hockley (Arnhold Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York) – who will moderate the discussion -, Alicia Knock (curator, head of the contemporary creation and prospective department at the Musée national d’art moderne, and curator of the exhibition Paris noir. Circulations artistiques et luttes anticoloniales, 1950-2000 at the Centre Pompidou (March 19-June 30, 2025)); Aurélie Voltz (director of the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne (MAMC+), who initiated the exhibition Globalisto. Une philosophie en mouvement in 2022, and member of FRAME). They will be accompanied by Egidia Marques Souto (lecturer at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris). Echoing the artists’ voices, they will bring the voices of institutions committed to intercultural dialogue.

The panel discussion will take place on Tuesday May 13 at 11:00am EST (17h00, France) in the Liard Amphitheater at the Sorbonne. Exchanges will be live streamed in English, via this link: www.youtube.com/live/zokY3G9EzxI