Rome's Villa Medici White Night is back

On Thursday, October 29, from 8 p.m. to midnight, Villa Medici’s White Night returns among the gardens, ateliers and most characteristic architectural spaces. The event is proposed as a moment of encounter and contamination between disciplines and forms of expression, the first appointment between Rome and the sixteen artists pensionnaires in residence at Villa Medici from September 2020 to August 2021.

For the occasion, all pensionnaires (visual artists, writers, composers, art historians, architects) have been invited by curator Saverio Verini to present a selection of visual or sound works, installations, performances or video projections. Over the course of the evening, the works will be exhibited in the Medici gardens and in some of the Villa’s interior spaces that are not usually accessible to the public, such as artist’s studios, salons, and Salon des pensionnaires, for a journey that reflects the dialogue between artistic languages and their interaction with these environments.

Demande à la nuit (Ask the night), the title of this 2020 edition, is not intended to be a true exhibition, but a path under the banner of transversality between expressive forms.

The Notte Bianca also aims to highlight the three fundamental missions of theAcademy of France in Rome - Villa Medici: hosting artists and researchers in residence, presenting a multidisciplinary artistic program, and enhancing the architectural and landscape heritage of the Villa.

The title Demande à la nuit is an invitation addressed to the public, for visitors to measure themselves with expectations and desires related to the time they will spend in the Villa, but also a solicitation addressed to the boardnaires themselves, who for this fifth edition are invited to propose an intervention representative of their individual poetics.

The sixteen artists and researchers participating in White Night 2020 are: Noriko Baba (composer), Coralie Barbe (restorer), Adila Bennedjaï-Zou (sound creation), Simon Boudvin (plastic arts), Gaylord Brouhot (art historian), Anne-James Chaton (writer), Mathilde Denize (plastic arts), Alice Dusapin (publisher), Fernando Garnero (composer), Alice Grégoire and Clément Périssé (architects), Félix Jousserand (writer), Jacques Julien (sculptor), Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza (plastic arts), Georges Senga (photographer), Apolonia Sokol (painter).

Admission is free with advance reservation to one of the time slots.

For more info: https://www.villamedici.it/i-giovedi/nuit-blanche-5e-edition/

Rome's Villa Medici White Night is back

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