Resistance/Confrontation: Olga Smith, with Stephanie Bailey
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.
BIOGRAPHIES
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.
Stephanie Bailey is Ocula Editor-in-Chief, a contributing editor to ART PAPERS and LEAP, and the current curator of the Conversations at Art Basel Hong Kong. A member of the Naked Punch editorial committee, and managing editor of Podium, the online journal for M+ Museum in Hong Kong, she also writes regularly for Artforum International, Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, and D’ivan, A Journal of Accounts. From 2012 to 2017, she was managing editor and senior editor of Ibraaz.
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.
BIOGRAPHIES
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.
Stephanie Bailey is Ocula Editor-in-Chief, a contributing editor to ART PAPERS and LEAP, and the current curator of the Conversations at Art Basel Hong Kong. A member of the Naked Punch editorial committee, and managing editor of Podium, the online journal for M+ Museum in Hong Kong, she also writes regularly for Artforum International, Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, and D’ivan, A Journal of Accounts. From 2012 to 2017, she was managing editor and senior editor of Ibraaz.
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