Justine Daquin is a curator, architect and cultural worker.
Her research focuses on liminal landscapes, the obscure and language.
In 2018, she founded the Franco-Moroccan collective Calypso36°21, serving as its artistic director for five years, and launched the travelling curatorial programme Out.of.the.blue.map which explores the liminality of Mediterranean borderscapes. Parallel to this, she coordinated the first Architecture and Landscape Biennial in Versailles (Bap!) under the direction of architect Djamel Klouche.
In 2020, Justine co-curated the exhibitions for the Out.of.the.blue.map programme in Tangier and then in Marseille for Manifesta13, and initiated and developed the trilingual publication On Drifting, distributed internationally.
In 2021, she was one of the recipients of TBA21-Academy’s Ocean Fellowship and was invited to speak about her research Tales of Old Women at the ‘Turbulence/Emergence/Enchantment’ symposium, organised by Cove Park to coincide with COP26.
Justine continued her collaboration with Tba21 by co-curating one of the semesters of Ocean Uni and her research thanks to the support of Fluxus, before returning to Paris in 2022 to join POUSH’s Bureau des penseur.euses, where she curated numerous exhibitions.
From 2023 to 2026, Justine was Head of Artistic Projects at the Art Explora Foundation in Paris, where she oversaw the cross-residency programme, the curatorial coordination of the eponymous festival, and the monitoring of residents she curated numerous exhibitions.
From 2023 to 2026, Justine was Head of Artistic Projects at the Art Explora Foundation, where she oversaw the cross-residency programme, the curatorial coordination of the eponymous festival, and the monitoring of residents’ research in Montmartre.
She is now looking to go back to indépendant curation while working as a cultural advisor internationally.More...