TALK – RESISTANCE / CONFRONTATION: OLGA SMITH ON MOHAMED BOUROUISSA
Through the double focus on the themes of resistance and confrontation, this talk delineates the volatile dynamics underpinning Mohamed Bourouissa’s art. It draws on a wide range of Bourouissa’s projects spanning photography, moving image and installation to show how these works intersect with symbolic, spatial and political constructions of inequality, social exclusion and racialised identities. In tracing these connections, Olga Smith engages with Jacques Rancière’s concept of ‘the sharing of the sensible’ to explore the transformative potential of art.
BIOGRAPHY
Olga Smith is an art historian, writer and curator, based at the University of Vienna. She has published on contemporary art, photography and new imaging technologies, interchanges between art and intellectual ideas and, most recently, representations of landscape and environmental cultures. This talk draws on material in her forthcoming book on contemporary photography in France.
Through the double focus on the themes of resistance and confrontation, this talk delineates the volatile dynamics underpinning Mohamed Bourouissa’s art. It draws on a wide range of Bourouissa’s projects spanning photography, moving image and installation to show how these works intersect with symbolic, spatial and political constructions of inequality, social exclusion and racialised identities. In tracing these connections, Olga Smith engages with Jacques Rancière’s concept of ‘the sharing of the sensible’ to explore the transformative potential of art.
BIOGRAPHY
Olga Smith is an art historian, writer and curator, based at the University of Vienna. She has published on contemporary art, photography and new imaging technologies, interchanges between art and intellectual ideas and, most recently, representations of landscape and environmental cultures. This talk draws on material in her forthcoming book on contemporary photography in France.
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