Simone Frangi in conversation with Soukaina Abrour
09.03.2024 from 18:30 to 19:30
On the occasion of Soukaina Abrour’s first solo exhibition, curator and researcher Simone Frangi will be in conversation with the artist to reflect on her practice and the new production presented at Almanac.
Simone Frangi (Italy, 1982) works at the intersection of critical thinking, curatorial research, and education. He currently serves as professor of Theory of Contemporary Art at the École Supérieure d’Art et Design in Grenoble. He directs with Alessandro Castiglioni Live Works – Free School of Performance at Centrale Fies of Trento and A Natural Oasis?, a Transnational Research Programme. In 2021 he became Senior Curator of MEDITERRANEA19 – School of Waters. In 2021 he also co-published with Lucrezia Cippitelli the anthology Colonialità e Culture Visuali in Italia (Mimesis, 2021). Since 2023 he is curator at Kunst Meran Merano Arte.
Raised in Italy since 2000, Soukaina Abrour (Morocco, 1997) graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Her research investigates the construction of the self in the human and non-human multitudes, past and future, through fabulation and its materialization in new forms. In 2022 she participated with BJCEM in a residency for Procida Capital of Culture. In 2023 she won the Agitu Ideo Gudeta Fellowship, conceived by Razzismo Brutta Storia, BHMF and Centrale Fies, the residency with MilanoMediterranea and participated in the Farout festival at BASE Milano.