Author Biography
Perin Emel Yavuz holds a doctorate in art history and theory, and is co-founder of the research group on the visual arts in the Middle East 19th–21st centuries (ARVIMM). She specialises in narrativity in art forms and is interested in art as a space for cultural and political interaction in relation to global transformations and contemporary issues of representation. She has coordinated a number of publications, including “Que fait la mondialisation à l’esthétique” with Bruno Trentini (Proteus, no. 8, March 2015), “Contextualiser nos regards” with Annabelle Boissier, Fanny Gillet and Alain Messaoudi (Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, no. 142, 2018), and “Les images migrent aussi” with Elsa Gomis and Francesco Zucconi (De facto Migrations, no. 24, January 2021). Currently head of communications and development at IDEM (L’Institut pour la Démocratie) and a member of the Désinfox-Migrations association, her career has been marked by a constant commitment to disseminating knowledge on sensitive subjects that divide society.
