Villa Vassilieff is accessible to visitors using wheeled devices or who have mobility difficulties thanks to special facilities access ramp, adapted toilets, and a lift.
Consult the map of adapted parking spaces in Paris here. The traces of lesbian and queer artistic life are numerous, at least since the 19th and 20th centuries. However, these narratives remain on the margins of conventional art history, often rendered invisible within the very biographies of the artists, forcing history to adopt a narrow perspective. Many of these artists lived their identities to the fullest, allowing these identities to influence their work.
Questioning lesbian visibility and presence means embracing the complexity and reality of the histories, creations, and cultural legacies of these artists. Yet photographic practice sometimes transcends these conventions, blurring boundaries and offering new possibilities: we photograph ourselves not only to project an image of who we are, but also to reflect our communities We hand our camera to others, or incorporate archival images in essence, we use the possibilities of photography to tell different stories.
Together, these voices will explore varied approaches to images and photography, from a queer perspective. Free registration here. Marie Docher : Marie Docher is a photographer, filmmaker, activist, and a member of the collective La Part des Femmes , which is committed to promoting equality and diversity in photography.
She is a Chevaleresse of the Order of Arts and Letters. She was a resident at the Villa Medici in and at the Villa Albertine in Her dissertation examines the role of photography in the creative practices of Indigenous women and queer artists in the United States and Canada, from the s to the present day.
