Gate 27, farklı pratiklerin araştırma ve üretim süreçlerini desteklemek ve disiplinlerarası etkileşime zemin yaratmak amacıyla 2019’da kurulmuş bir uluslararası konuk sanatçı programıdır.
Gate 27, farklı pratiklerin araştırma ve üretim süreçlerini desteklemek ve disiplinlerarası etkileşime zemin yaratmak amacıyla 2019’da kurulmuş bir uluslararası konuk sanatçı programıdır.
Gilda Gonfier, a graduate of Sciences Po Toulouse, is an eclectic author, researcher, and librarian whose work explores themes of memory, resistance, and identity.
Her play Le Cachot (Textes en Paroles) dramatizes the voices of enslaved individuals through testimonies from trial archives documenting cases against abusive slave owners. This work directly informed her collaboration in writing Libres et sans fers – Paroles d’esclaves français (Fayard, 2015), co-authored with historians Frédéric Régent and Bruno Maillard. She further explores these themes on Le Petit Lexique Colonial , a blog dedicated to the history of slavery and colonization.
In visual storytelling, she collaborated with filmmaker Sylvaine Dampierre on the films Le pays à l’envers and Paroles de nègres, both focusing on the memory of slavery.
She has also contributed to children’s literature with her bilingual album L’anoli amoureux (2010) and addressed the transformative power of fairy tales in her TEDx talk, The Tale as a Path to Self-Awareness.
Her short story Taberi River was published in Volcaniques: Une anthologie du plaisir (2015), curated by Léonora Miano. She shares her writing and projects on her author website, gildagonfier.com, a platform dedicated to her creative workshop, book recommendations, and fragments of her creations.
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