Samina Iqbal
Connecting Paris with the Modern Art of Pakistan
Samina Iqbal is a practicing artist, art historian, and an academic, currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies, Art & Design, at the Lahore School of Economics, Pakistan.
She received her PhD in art historical studies from the Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA in 2016. Her research interest is South Asian modern and contemporary art and her PhD dissertation was on the study of modern art in Pakistan in the first decade of its establishment through a small group of artist collective called Lahore Art Circle. She is currently working on extending her research by undertaking a comparative study of what modern art entailed for other neighboring countries of Pakistan, including the MENASA region, while examining the respective, purposefully open-ended, dialectical tensions between international, national, and local stylistic concerns of the region—a parallel dialogue to the western canon.
As part of the École des Modernités residency at the Institut Giacometti, Samina Iqbal continues her research into the passage of artists from Pakistan to Paris. A thriving hub of fine arts, Paris attracted many artists from around the world, especially from former British colonies, who came to Paris to study and to become part of mainstream art. These non-European artists exhibited their work in Paris and returned to their home countries carrying along the enriching experience of Parisian life and art milieu.
The presentation will explore the visibility of the modern artists of Pakistan in Paris during the 1950s to 1970s and the artists in focus will include Shakir Ali, Zubeida Agha, Syed Sadequain Naqvi, and Zahoor ul Akhlaq. The intention is to highlight the common thread between the artistic trajectories of these artists and the reception of their work in Paris.
Jesal Thacker
Jesal Thacker a reçu une formation artistique, mais a choisi de poursuivre des études universitaires. Diplômée de la J.J. School of Art de Bombay, elle conduit des recherches sur l’art moderne et contemporain indien. En 2005 elle a créé Bodhana, une organisation à but non lucratif qui vise à mener des recherches et publier des ouvrages sur l’art moderne Indien. L’objectif premier est de travailler sur l’héritage et les archives des artistes d’Inde de la période moderne dont l’étude manque encore.
Marion Grébert
Marion Sergent
Lauren Walden
Nat Paterson
Léopold Chauveau (1870-1940), monstrous diversity, and widening access
Nat Paterson is a PhD student at the University of Glasgow, and is in a research residency at the Giacometti Institute. In his thesis, entitled "Léopold Chauveau (1870-1940), monstrous diversity, and the widening of access", he analyzes Chauveau's creative practice - a visual artist and writer who, in the face of social alienation, created monstrous "companions" for himself - in relation to the concept of "neurodiversity".