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Upcoming Events

• Friday, 5 June - Tuesday, 9 June

  Micro-Residency | Tamara Reynolds, Documentary Photographer

  Tamara Reynolds, documentary photographer and Lecturer in the Department of Art at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø, is in residence at Fondazione Giorgio e Armanda Marchesani, where her work Melungeon is featured in Resonance. Supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, Reynolds spent three years living in Sneedville, East Tennessee, building a relationship with the Melungeons—a mixed-race people of African, Native American and European descent, marked for generations by suspicion and racial indeterminacy. Her project engages issues around documentary methodology, the ethics of sustained presence and what it means to photograph a community that is also family.

• Saturday, 6 June

  12:00 - 17:00

  Open House | Film, Poetry and Multimedia Talks

  Resonance opens its doors for a daylong open house at Fondazione Marchesani.

  12:00 - 17:00

  The exhibition—galleries, screening room a garden—are open to the public

  14:00 - 17:00

  The public is invited to an afternoon program of film, talks and poetry with artists and scholars Javier Castro, Gigi Castro, Luis William, Elvira Aballí Morell and Tamara Reynolds.

  Detailed Schedule

• Monday, 8 June - Friday, 12 June

  Micro-Residency | Raheleh Filsoofi, Multimedia Artist

  Raheleh Filsoofi, Assistant Professor of Art, Department of Art and Blair School of Music, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø, is in residence at Fondazione Giorgio e Armanda Marchesani, where her work Meeting Ground is featured in Resonance. During her residency, Filsoofi collects dust and clay sediment from Venice to produce a new series of prints using her argillotype process—a clay-based method in which dust serves as both pigment and trace.

• Thursday, 11 June

  18:00

  Performance | Resonance: Between Shores, with Raheleh Filsoofi and Reza Filsoofi

  Resonance: Between Shores is a new performance work exploring migration, displacement, and the relationship between land, body, and sound through clay and performance. This two-person performance, between Raheleh Filsoofi and Reza Filsoofi, brings poetry and resonance into dialogue through a pair of ceramic vessels made from Nashville soil. Connected and partially veiled with beads and threads, the vessels create a fragile landscape between instrument, body, and archive.

  As Reza Filsoofi activates one vessel through rhythm and vibration, Raheleh Filsoofi recites poems through the other — texts reflecting on earth, war, movement, and the experience of living between places. Developed in relation to Venice and its long histories of exchange between East and West, the performance considers how materials and voices carry traces of distant geographies across borders and water. Through resonance, breath, and clay, the vessels become chambers of accumulation, holding the sediments of memory, passage, and survival between shores.

• Tuesday, 23 June

  14:00

  Panel Discussion | African and Diaspora Art and the Remaking of the Venice Biennale

  For more than two decades, African and African diaspora artists have reshaped the contours of contemporary art on one of the world's most storied stages. This panel brings together curators and artists behind two consequential efforts at the Venice Biennale to mediate African presence, inviting them to reflect on a generation of creative transformation, critical inquiry and hard-won visibility.

  Panelists:

  • Kader Attia — Curator, 7th edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, and participating artist, Fault Lines

  • María Magdalena Campos-Pons — Professor of Art, Cornelius 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Chair of Fine Arts and Founder, Engine for Art, Democracy and Justice at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø, and participating artist, Authentic/Ex-centric

  • Olu Oguibe — Artist, scholar, and co-curator, Authentic/Ex-centric

  • Gilane Tawadros — Director, Whitechapel Gallery, London, and curator, Fault Lines

  Moderator:

  • Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi — Steve and Lisa Tanabaum Curator in Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

  Introduction:

  • Grace Aneiza Ali — Curator, Engine for Art, Democracy and Justice, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø

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