Maylis de Kerangal
Maylis de Kerangal is the author of some fifteen novels and short stories, published by Éditions Verticales/Gallimard. These include Birth of a Bridge (2010, Prix Médicis, Prix Franz Hessel, and Premio Von Rezzori 2014) and Mend the Living (2014), a novel about a heart transplant (twelve literary awards, translated into forty languages, adapted for film and theater, winner of the Wellcome Book Prize and the Premio Letterario Merck). À ce stade de la nuit (2014, Éditions Guérin) received the Boccace Prize in 2016. Her work is marked by the imprint of places, archaeology, the use of documents and investigation, and the motif of the double. She is inspired by the question of landscape and is interested in the world of work, the future of young people, the human voice, and the presence of ghosts, as the short stories in Canoës (2021). In 2024, she published Jour de ressac, a novel about her return to Le Havre, the city where she grew up.
September 2025Special Report
FROM OBJECT FRAGMENTS TO PHANTOM LIMBS
Kader Attia experienced his artistic epiphany at the Louvre. Alongside with Elizabeth Peyton, he has been offered the status of “Hôte du Louvre” by the museum, acting as a fellow-traveller to the museum and holding a studio at the Pavillon de Flore. Amongst the many activities he has developed, including the Artist’s Lessons program, with a final sequence on September 25th, he conceived as seminar entitled What is Missing in the Object. This seminar was held at the museum’s research center, the Centre Dominique Vivant Denon, and brought together members of the curatorial team as well as leading figures from the contemporary world. The questions raised stemmed from both his work and the thinking inherent to the Louvre: how does the lack of an object, the lack in an object, the lack around an object, enable us to extend and clarify our perception of art, of the museum, and of our humanity?
