Diego Marcon: Stories of Youth
Tuesday 19 May 2026 from 7pm to 8:30pm
Free on booking
Talk in french
As part of Diego Marcon’s exhibition Prom, Stéphanie Moisdon, art critic, curator and co-director of the Consortium in Dijon, and Philippe Azoury, film critic, screenwriter and author, discuss the portrayal of youth in Diego Marcon’s work.
Through his films and installations, Diego Marcon portrays children and teenagers in ambiguous situations, where innocence rubs shoulders with anxiety, and where formal gentleness contrasts with the violence of the narratives. What does this say about our contemporary imaginations and our relationship with childhood, fiction and memory?
By combining critical perspectives with cinematic references, this discussion broadens the reflection to include other artistic and filmic works, in order to examine more broadly the way in which art and cinema portray figures of youth today.
Co-founder, with Éric Troncy, of Frog magazine, she is a regular contributor to various publications, including Beaux Arts Magazine, Artforum, art press, Purple and Self Service.
In 1994, she founded bdv (bureau des vidéos) with Nicolas Trembley, a distribution and production company for artists' videos. From 1989 to 1996, she worked as an exhibition curator at the Musée national d'art moderne – Centre Pompidou in Paris.
She has organised numerous exhibitions, including: Heimo Zobernig at the Chantal Crousel Gallery (2023); 1984-1997. La décennie, with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, at the Centre Pompidou-Metz (2015-2016); Sturtevant Sturtevant at MADRE, Naples (2016); the 9th Lyon Biennale, with Hans Ulrich Obrist (2007); Manifesta 4, European biennial of contemporary art in Frankfurt (2001); the group exhibition ZAC 99, with Nicolas Trembley, at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1999); and Présumés innocents, with Marie-Laure Bernadac, at the CAPC in Bordeaux (2000).
Since 2006, she has curated solo and group exhibitions for Le Consortium, including: Diego Marcon (2026), Peter Wächtler (2025), Alain Guiraudie (2023), Ernst Yoji Jaegger (2023), Julien Ceccaldi (2023), Sergej Jensen (2022), Heji Shin (2021), Nick Relph (2020), Mathieu Malouf (2019), Nicolas Ceccaldi (2018), David Hominal (2017), Willem de Rooij (2016), John Armleder (2015), Trisha Donnelly (2014), Richard Hawkins (2014). She also designs thematic exhibitions such as THEY, histoire et figures de la jeunesse (2023), Le monde comme volonté et comme papier peint (2012), adapted from Michel Houellebecq's novel La carte et le territoire, and Before the End, co-directed with Olivier Mosset (2006).
Since 2006, she has been running an alternative, travelling school, ‘L'École de Stéphanie’, hosted by various institutions in Paris, Turin, Biel, Berlin and Toulouse.
She is the author of several monographs, including: Wade Guyton: Five Paintings 2013-2015 (published by the Musée d'Art moderne de Paris); Heimo Zobernig (Galerie Chantal Crousel / Les Presses du réel, 2023); Matthew Lutz-Kinoy (Les Presses du réel, 2023); Jean-Luc Verna, Les Roches Noires (Flammarion, 2017); Marnie Weber (CNAC / Les Presses du réel, 2011); Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (Hazan, 2002). She also published Stéphanie Moisdon, an anthology of her critical writings, with Les Presses du réel – JRP|Ringier (2007).
A film and photography critic (for France Culture and Les Inrocks), author of several monographs (on Werner Schroeter, Jean Eustache, Jean Cocteau, the Velvet Underground, Antoine D’Agata, Jim Jarmusch and others), and screenwriter of feature films (including El Agua with Elena Lopez Riera), Philippe Azoury is also a psychoanalyst in Paris.