Areas of Expertise
Visual Art; Visual Culture
Email: gavarini@brandeis.edu
Current Project
This year, my research will focus on narratives about women who–on their own–leave their countries of origin for unknown new lives. I am particularly interested in how these women have inspired artists, writers and filmmakers who have represented their pioneer spirit in works of art and fiction. I will also write an article: “European Passport: The Subversive Performances of Tanja Ostojic.”
Biography
Jehanne-Marie Gavarini is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. In the last ten years, Gavarini’s work has investigated desire, seduction, fantasies, and sexuality as subjects of representation. Her sculptures and installations combine industrial materials such as metal, plastics and hardware with found objects and fabric. Jehanne-Marie’s work has been exhibited extensively in Europe and the United States. She is the recipient of several awards, grants, and residencies. Her work has been recognized by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Bronx Council on the Arts. She has been an artist in residence at the Centre de Recherche d’Echange et de Diffusion pour l’Art Contemporain in Ivry-sur-Seine, France. Jehanne-Marie’s research interests include visual studies, film, gender studies, and cultural theory. She is the co-translator of Tomboy, an autobiographical novel by acclaimed Franco-Algerian writer Nina Bouraoui. Recent publications include “Rewind: The Will to Remember, the Will to Forget in Michael Haneke’s Caché” in Memory in Contemporary Film (London: Wallflower Press, 2010) and “Permeable Borders in Notre Musique” in Zoom in, Zoom out: Crossing Borders in Contemporary European Cinema (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007). She is currently Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Education
M.F.A., University of California Davis
B.A., University of California Berkeley
Representative Publications
“in and around us.” David Winton Bell Gallery- List Art Center. Brown University. Providence, RI. 2005
Bouraoui, Nina. Tomboy. Trans. M.A. Salvodon and J. Gavarini. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
Links
Personal Web Page
Tomboy
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