julesramage
︎visual artist & researcher
︎bio
Works&lives in Roubaix, born 1987
Jules Ramage is a French intersex artist and researcher. Graduated from Le Fresnoy-studio national des arts contemporains, he also holds a UPCité research-creation PhD. He is associated with the CERILAC research lab in UPCité and a member of Cité du Genre, an interdisciplinary research institute in gender studies. In 2011, he co-founded BLACKCUT, a production platform dedicated to collaborative practices, which he now co-directs with artist Marina Ledrein.
In 2015, he becomes an artist-in-residence at CENTQUATRE-Paris, as part of the NEARCH European program: he is then collaborating with archaeologists, using ancient photographic processes to document places of violence and collective traumas.
From 2013 to 2025, he has conducted in-depth collaborative fieldwork in various prisons. Together with his incarcerated co-workers, they questioned the links between control institutions, gender violence and medical care. They worked in the logic of expanded cinema, producing films but also, when made impossible for legal or ethical reasons, activating their content through other artistic forms. Those project were supported by Bétonsalon-art and research center, CENTQUATRE-Paris, la Cité internationale des arts and DOC-Paris.
Jules Ramage was awarded the FoRTE prize in 2018, nominated for LE BAL-Jeune Création in 2019 and won the Social Practice Arts Prize in 2022, together with artist Marina Ledrein. His work has been presented in France at Bétonsalon-Centre d’art et de recherche, Cité Internationale des Arts, CENTQUATRE, Musée de l’Homme, Beaux-Arts de Paris and at various international festivals such as Visions du Réel, Sheffield DocFest, Glasgow Short Film Festival or Go Short.
Today, he is closing a 12-years cycle of action-research in prison to start a new chapter, focusing on intersex counter-archives.
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