Marion Slitine has graduated from Sciences-Po Paris, the Sorbonne, and the INALCO, and is now an anthropologist and scholar at EHESS, where she holds a seminar on the revolutions of Middle Eastern contemporary art. She has written a PhD thesis on the contemporary art sectors in Palestine since 1990, thanks to which she received numerous scholarships from the Institut Français du Proche-Orient in Jerusalem and the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris. As an Arabist, she has undertaken a three-year ethnographic study in Palestine alongside with visual artists and protagonists of the Palestinian artistic scene (Ramallah, Jerusalem, Gaza). Parallel to her research, Marion is also a curator specialized in the Middle East. She has worked in Syria, Palestine, and Morocco, and is currently based in France, where she works for various contemporary art festivals.

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At Camargo, Marion Slitine has written part of her thesis on the dynamics of Palestinian contemporary art, and developed the argument that we should re-conceive the ties between art and politics — always closely interlocked in the Palestinian case — while simultaneously including them in the globalized art market realities. Her residency has also been the occasion to coordinate Gaza inédite, an international scientific and cultural 4-day event which took place in both Paris and Marseille (at the Mucem, the Institut du Monde arabe, the Institut des Cultures d'Islam, and the Bibliothèque Universitaire des Langues et Civilisations) and gathered scholars, journalists, diplomats, artists, humanitarian professionals, politicians and politically engaged citizens. This event allowed for a better understanding of the most recent works in the Gaza Strip and gave account of the artistic and civil vitality of the region. Marion also gave a conference at the École supérieure d’art of Aix-en-Provence titled Ce que l’art peut à Gaza, with the Gaza artist Salman Nawati.

Marion Slitine was in residence at Camargo from November 4 to January 22, 2015-2016, in partnership with the Mucem Program.