© claudio parmiggiani | delocazione [detail], 2008, installation, soot and ash

Dear friends and book lovers,

You are warmly invited to join Giuliana Prucca – writer, curator, and founder of AVARIE – at the Cipm | Centre international de poésie marseille, for the presentation of her critical essay Devenir minéral on Saturday, June 14, 2025, at 11 am. 

Published by L'éditeur du dimanche in Paris, Devenir minéral establishes critical and poetic connections among texts and works by various artists, writers, and thinkers—from Antonin Artaud to Jean Dubuffet, Jan Fabre, Anselm Kiefer, Yves Klein, Gutaï, Joë Bousquet, Francis Ponge, Wols, Alberto Giacometti, Claudio Parmiggiani, Gilles Deleuze, and Aby Warburg—through the prism of the mineral matter, encompassing stone, sand, dust, or earth. Challenging conventional art history, the essay embraces a critically inventive approach that celebrates anti-critique, disrupts traditional reading habits, and occupies writing space differently, providing a physically engaging experience.

The Cipm is a center dedicated to the creation and dissemination of contemporary poetry, both French and international, based in Marseille since 1990. Its main areas of focus are public readings, access to and publishing of specialized resources in contemporary poetry (through both its library and editorial work), writers-in-residence programs, audience outreach, and international exchange.

The Cipm library houses around 50,000 items and is internationally recognized for its exceptional holdings: French poetry, essays, philosophy, art books, international journals, the Anne-Marie Albiach collection, American poetry, multilingual materials, and audiovisual resources.




giuliana prucca | devenir minéral
book presentation


cipm | centre international de poésie marseille
centre de la vieille charité

2, rue de la charité
13002 marseille | france

cipmarseille.fr
@cipm_poesie

saturday, 14 june, 2025 | 11 am



FREE ADMISSION