Christophe Leclercq
Art Historian (France)
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Christophe Leclercq is a teacher, critic, and researcher in contemporary art history. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of art, and more specifically on the life of artworks. He has worked on the conception and study of archives linked to contemporary creation, such as the organization Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), to which he devoted his doctoral thesis, and collaborates with the anarchive association, directed by Anne-Marie Duguet, notably on the publication devoted to the artist Fujiko Nakaya. He also directed the ERC AIME project (“An Inquiry into Modes of Existence”), led by Bruno Latour from 2011 to 2015, before being, with him, cocurator and coeditor of the exhibition and catalogue Reset Modernity! (2016, ZKM, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe/MIT Press).