Mikaela Assolent

In Mikaela Assolent's research project 'The Body-Double', a researcher walks around among the public and initiates conversations with individuals or small groups.

Biography

Mikaela Assolent (1985, France) is an art educator whose research centres on how feminist strategies can be used to question power structures in exhibition spaces and how inclusive learning environments can be developed with audiences around artworks depicting sexuality.

She has worked at 49 Nord 6 Est - FRAC Lorraine, the Galerie des Galeries (Galeries Lafayette), Palais de Tokyo, and other art institutions in France. She holds a professional MA in curating (Paris IV-Sorbonne University), an MA in contemporary philosophy (Paris X University), and is currently part of the Feminism, Sexual Politics, and Visual Culture Centre for Doctoral Training at Loughborough University (UK).

Interview with Mikaela Assolent

Essay

In the following essay, Mikaela Assolent writes about the background to The Body-Double by reflecting on the fate of the minority subject in the public sphere of the majority.

Read the essay here:
THE BODY-DOUBLE