PHOTO50 PANEL: HOW DO WOMEN CURATE PHOTOGRAPHY?
Friday 20 January 2023
5.30-6.30pm
Talks Theatre, Gallery Level
Moderator
Shoair Mavlian– Director, Photoworks
Panel
Fiona Rogers, V&A Parasol Foundation Curator of Women in Photography
Katy Barron, Co-Curator of Photo50, Beautiful Experiments
Hannah Geddes, Curator, writer, researcher
Renée Mussai, Curator at Autograph ABP
A discussion around curating photography from the viewpoint of women in the field. The talk will explore their careers and the significance of curating images today and will ask: How can this be done from a feminist perspective?
Music and fine art have been inextricably linked for centuries through a combination of pure inspiration, collaborations and appropriation. Considering the curatorial theme of Art & Music for Platform at London Art Fair 2022, this panel will discuss music as a significant influence in the history of art, through to contemporary and popular culture, how contemporary craft and contemporary art increasingly occupy a shared space in both exhibitions and collections, and the range of music inspired visual art being made today.
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Shoair Mavlian
Shoair Mavlian is Director of Photoworks and was named Apollo Magazine’s 40 under 40 Europe – Thinkers (2018). As Director of Photoworks, Shoair leads the strategic vision and artistic direction of the organisation, including exhibitions, biennial festivals, commissions, learning and engagement, publishing and digital content. Recent projects include ‘Photoworks Festival: Propositions for Alternative Narratives’ (2020), ‘Jerwood/Photoworks Awards: Silvia Rosi and Theo Simpson’ (2020), ‘Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Zone Grise / The Land In between’ for the MEP Paris (2019) and ‘Brighton Photo Biennial: A New Europe’ (2018).
Hannah Geddes
Hannah Geddes is a curator, researcher and writer based in London. Specialising in contemporary photography, she is currently a doctoral researcher at UAL, and a Curator at Tate and Splash & Grab photography magazine.
Her thesis Curating with intention: Activist Artists, Radical Listening and Social Justice in the Museum is looking at artists making work on the self as a form of visual activism and exploring how curatorial practice can better support long-term engagement and participation with social justice practice.
Hannah has written for publications including British Journal of Photography, Splash and Grab, Ardesia Projects and Twin Magazine. She has worked on a number of exhibitions and displays at Tate including ‘Ima-Abasi Okon’, ‘Zanele Muholi’ and ‘Performing Genders, Performing Selves’. She curates the online platform for Splash and Grab and has curated a number of exhibitions including ‘Construction’, featuring the work of Suzie Howell and Marguerite Bornhauser.
Fiona Rogers
Fiona Rogers is the Parasol Foundation Curator of Women in Photography at the V&A. Through acquisitions, commissions, research and public programming, Fiona aims to foreground and sustain women’s practice in contemporary photography and the history of photography. The programme’s ambition is to support contemporary women artists, develop programming for diverse audiences, and investigate the roles of women photographers within the V&A collections.
Renée Mussai
London-based curator, writer and art historian Renée Mussai is the Curator and Head of Archive at Autograph ABP – an arts charity working internationally in photography and film. At Autograph ABP she manages a diverse collection of photographs and a global programme of exhibition, publishing and research initiatives. Renée has lectured at art colleges, museums and galleries internationally and organised numerous exhibitions in Europe, Africa and the US, including most recently the critically acclaimed ‘Black Chronicles II’. Between 2009-13, she was non-resident fellow and guest curator at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, USA. Mussai is presently a PhD candidate in Art History at University College London (UCL).
Katy Barron
Katy Barron is a photography curator, mentor and advisor based in London. She has worked within the field of photography for the past 20 years, focussing on contemporary and twentieth century artists. Katy has undertaken a myriad of roles within the field – from Senior Director at Michael Hoppen Gallery to Chair of the Board of Photofusion. She is currently employed by the Maud Sulter Estate in Glasgow and is helping other artists with issues around their estates and legacies. Katy has a BA from the Courtauld Institute of Art and an M. Litt in the History of Art from Oxford University. She has curated numerous photography exhibitions in the UK and abroad, mostly recently at Four Corners in Bethnal Green, St John’s College, Oxford as a part of the Photo Oxford festival and at Photofusion, Brixton.