'Distance Triggered Collaboration': Cédric Fauq at Palais de Tokyo
At 28-years-of-age, Cédric Fauq is the Palais de Tokyo’s newest and youngest curator. One of two new staff appointments by the Parisian contemporary art center’s new director Emma Lavigne, Fauq distinguished himself with a short but illustrious tenure at Nottingham Contemporary, as cofounder of the independent London space clearview.ltd and as co-curator of the Baltic Triennial 13.
Fauq greeted me at the Palais de Tokyo, wearing a beaming smile that not even his blue mask could hide. We bumped elbows—a new sort of pseudo-physically distanced handshake that has become the norm in Paris since the end of lockdown—before sitting down and talk about his future projects at the Palais de Tokyo, Black Lives Matter and how the museum is adapting to a Post-pandemic world.
