Flora Fettah is a curator and art critic. Studying at École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France), Flora conducted research in Arts, Aesthetics and Social Sciences on ‘The border crisis in Morocco seen by contemporary artists and their place in public debates.’ She understands contemporary creation through the lens of its political, social and cultural contexts. Flora is particularly interested in how artists seize and reveal the tensions at work within a territory, its relationship to postcolonial narratives and the place given to non-official discourses and cultures.

She has worked for French and international organisations such as the Cnap, the Monnaie de Paris, the Manifesta biennial, Triangle – Astérides or AWARE, while at the same time carrying out various exhibition projects both on her own and within collectives and organisations. She has chosen to be particularly involved with emerging artists in the Jeunes Critiques d’Art and Diamètre collectives. She is also Contemporaines’ Vice-president, a French non-profit that is promoting gender equalities within visual arts, in order to fight against the invisibilisation of artists who are victims of gender discrimination and to promote an intersectional feminism.

The residency at Cove Park will be a research and writing retreat for her upcoming book on Art as a tool for political resistance (co-authors Camille Bardin, Horya Makhlouf, Le cavalier bleu ed., 2023).