Parallax circuit: Women of drawing

- Joana P. R. Neves, artistic director of Drawing Now Paris

Joana P.R. Neves, an independent curator and writer based in London, has directed international galleries and organized exhibitions in France and abroad. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she also completed a PhD in 2020 at Kingston University entitled Following the Indexical Line, Etienne-Jules Marey, Douglas Huebler and Sol LeWitt. Her recent publications include As One Takes One's Pulse, The Technology of Asemantic Writing, Centre d'art de Genève (2019); Unskilled Beauty or Ugly Truth? (Drawing, Research, Theoretical Practice, 2020). She is currently working on her first book, The Female Drawing Machinesabout drawing as technology from a feminist perspective (2026, Bloomsbury) and has launched the podcast Exhibitionistas with Emily Harding.

- Bérénice Saliou, Director, Fonds régional d'art contemporain de Champagne-Ardenne

Bérénice Saliou, curator and member of AICA and C-E-A, will be co-curating the inaugural exhibition of the Fondation H in Madagascar in 2022, after having directed the programming of the Institut des Cultures d'Islam (2015-2022). Driven by questions of transmission, mediation, interdisciplinarity and a desire to decentralize viewpoints, she works to raise the visibility of artists from sometimes marginalized scenes. From 2022 to 2025, she directed Documents d'artistes La Réunion, where she developed a publishing tool to serve artists from the island and Indianoceania. Since May 2025, she has been director of the Frac Champagne-Ardenne, where she has developed Poétique de l'attention, a project committed to exploring sensitive relationships between artworks, territories and audiences.

- Laura Sillars, Director of the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA)

Laura Sillars is Director of MIMA and Dean of Culture and Creativity at Teesside University. She has directed major contemporary art programs in the UK and internationally, holding positions at Tate, FACT and Site Gallery, and leading projects in New York, Detroit, Busan, Liverpool, Sheffield and Middlesbrough. Her curatorial work explores how art can shape civic life, connect communities and respond to site specificities and material histories. At MIMA, she has established a program that links contemporary practice with education, ecology and social change, positioning the gallery as a driver of cultural regeneration in the Tees Valley region. Laura holds a PhD funded by the Leverhulme Trust at Durham University, entitled The Mineral Image: Contemporary Art and Digital Technology,which examines the material basis of digital culture and includes a study of the work of Suzanne Treister.