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Damarice Amao

Company

Centre Pompidou

Title

Associate curator, Paris, PhD

Location

France

Bio

Dr Amao is an associate curator for photography at the Musée National d'Art Moderne/Centre Pompidou in Paris. She has co-curated exhibitions such as  Eli Lotar (Jeu de Paume, 2017), Photography, Weapon of Class (Centre Pompidou, 2018) and Dora Maar (Centre Pompidou, Tate, Getty, 2019) and co-edited the accompanying catalogues. She recently curated and edited the following projects :  Charlotte Perriand. Politics of photomontage (Rencontres d'Arles, 2021), Nicole Gravier. Myths and Clichés (Rencontres d’Arles, 2023) and Décadrage colonial. Anticolonialism, Surrealism, Modern Photography (Centre Pompidou, 2022) She is the author of Eli Lotar et le mouvement des images (2017) and has contributed to numerous  publications including Bernar Venet. Photographies ; James Barnor. The Roadmaker (2021) ; Variétés et l’esprit contemporain (2019), Le Spectre du Surréalisme (2017).