Maud Jacquin is an art historian and curator based in Paris and New York. With Sébastien Pluot, she is co-director of Art by Translation, an international research program in art and curatorial practices that involves participating students and host institutions in four countries. Most recently in 2016, she curated a major retrospective of films and performances by Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki at the Jeu de Paume in Paris as well as “From Reel to Real: Women, Feminism and the London Film-makers’ Co-operative,” a program of screenings and performances at Tate Britain and Tate Modern including more than forty films by twenty-five filmmakers. Before that, she curated monographic exhibitions of Alice Anderson (Musée Chagall, Musée Picasso and Frac Paca in France), KwieKulik (BWA Wroclaw, Poland) and Fred Forest (Jeu de Paume, espace virtuel) and, from 2011 to 2013, she was the associate curator of Residency Unlimited, a New York based residency program for international artists and curators. She received her M.A from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London and her Ph.D. from University College London. Her research interests include moving image and performance practices, expanded cinema, feminist media histories, theories of narrative and translation. Her dissertation explored the politics of narrative in women artists’ film and video, with a particular focus on the British experimental film scene of the 1970s and 80s.
