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Tea with Nefertiti: The Creation of Images of Culture through the Arts
From December 19, 2013 until January 22, 2014
Talk with Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath21/01/2014. MADRID
Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, the co-founders Art reoriented, a multidisciplinary curatorial platform based in Munich and New York, talk about their critically acclaimed exhibition Tea with Nefertiti, currently on show at IVAM, Valencia after a successful run at Mathaf, Doha and IMA, Paris. Through discussing the curatorial premise and methodology behind the show, they highlight the ways through which an artwork acquires different meanings and agencies when it travels through time and place. Through employing the Nefertiti bust as a metaphorical thread, and by interrogating the contested history of Egyptian Museum collections from the 19th century onwards, Bardaouil and Fellrath will explore how an artwork can become a tool for the writing of much-contested narratives that serve as frameworks through which an image of another culture can be imagined and consequently fixed.
The event take place at 7:00 p.m. in our auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62). In English with a simultaneous translation into Spanish. Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
The event take place at 7:00 p.m. in our auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62). In English with a simultaneous translation into Spanish. Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
Curators' Bio
Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath are the co-founders of Art Reoriented, a multidisciplinary curatorial platform based in Munich and New York since 2009. Bardaouil and Fellrath belong to several art prize and residency committees, including Dar Al-Ma’mûn in Marrakesh and the Boghossian Foundation in Brussels. They have held teaching positions at the London School of Economics and the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, among other institutions. They contribute regularly to Flash Art, Art Info, and the Huffington Post and have published in DadaSur: The International Journal on Surrealism, Qantara, and The International Journal of Humanities.
Bardaouil and Fellrath’s research and publication projects include collaborations with numerous museums and cultural institutions, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris and the Today Art Museum in Beijing. Their exhibitions include: Told Untold Retold, the inaugural contemporary art exhibition for Mathaf: the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Tea with Nefertiti, the international traveling show for Mathaf: the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, L’Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno in Valencia and the Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst in Munich. They are currently preparing a solo Mona Hatoum exhibition for Mathaf and a thematic exhibition for the Gwangju Museum of Art in South Korea, both opening in 2014.
Integral to Bardaouil and Fellrath’s practice is the critique of museological practices and institutionalized exhibition structures. Through their work, they question the way artworks have been appropriated by reductionist narratives and politicized modes of representation. They excavate art historical materials for the purpose of repositioning them in the more dynamic framework of contemporary artistic production. In 2013, Bardaouil and Fellrath curated the Lebanese Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennial. Their new book Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring: Conversations with Artists from the Arab World will be published by Skira in 2014.
