Talk
WHEN
April 23, 2025
6:30 PM
WHERE
NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery
Part of "Curators Talk"
WHO
NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery
Open to the Public
Join us for the next event in the NYUAD Art Gallery series CURATORS TALK.
Since 2007, Shabbir Hussain Mustafa has curated exhibitions across various institutions that take modernism not as a universalist category, but as a site of tension deeply entangled with the formation of the postcolonial and the imaginative life of the museum. In this dialogue with curator and art historian Duygu Demir, he will revisit a selection of these curatorial projects to reflect on the exhibition as a field of struggle: where forms of storytelling, archival dissonance, and epistemic tension gather. The exhibitionary form, in these instances, becomes a space — however fragile — for inhabiting contradictions without the pressure of resolution, and for undertaking the necessary work of unhousing modernism from within the museum.
Image: Camping and Tramping Through the Colonial Archive: The Museum in Malaya, NUS Museum, Singapore, 2010. Courtesy of NUS Museum.
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