Curating Hospitality: Toward a More Sensitive Perception of Vulnerability

This is a wide-ranging conversation between Anne-Gaëlle Saliot and philosophers Fabienne Brugère and Guillaume le Blanc, authors of the book La Fin de l’hospitalité (The End of Hospitality, 2017) and curators of the exhibit “Persona Grata” in Paris (October 2018–January 2019). For them, art is “essential” in negotiating the conflicts of hospitality that exist between the ethical “gestures” of individuals and volunteers, and the political duties of hospitality within the framework of national laws. Art shows, they say, “the imaginary of migrations,” and “create[s] a sort of hospitality with dreams, desire, imagination.”