Conversations | The Artist and the Collector


The Artist and the Collector
Paris+ par Art Basel 2023, October 19

In contexts in which creating or showing art has turned into a form of struggle, artists and collectives are not only resisting by pursuing their work but also by creating infrastructures such as cinemas, festivals, schools and gardens. With these projects, art can become a tool to train people, give access, experiment with new pedagogies, and transform communities. How can collectors support artistic initiatives in parts of the world with little art infrastructure or where art is simply suppressed? Sandra Terdjman, co-founder of KADIST and AFIELD, will be in conversation with Kader Attia to discuss their shared vision of art and its role in society at large.

‣ Kader Attia, artist and curator, Berlin
‣ Sandra Terdjman, Vice President, co-founder of KADIST and AFIELD, Paris
‣ Moderator: Farah Nayeri, author and journalist, London

‣ Kader Attia is a multidisciplinary artist who draws upon the lived experiences of two disparate cultural identities: Algerian and French. From this place of cultural intermediacy, Attia’s practice interrogates sociopolitical complexities rooted in histories of colonialism and cultural obfuscation. In his practice, Attia employs poetic installations and sculptural assemblages to investigate the far-reaching emotional implications of western cultural hegemony and colonial systems of power for non-western subjectivities, focusing particularly on collective trauma and notions of repair.

‣ Sandra Terdjman supports the role of the arts and culture in society through different organizations that she successively co-founded: KADIST, a non-profit contemporary art organization based on an international collection and collaborations, AFIELD, which is developed as a fellowship and an international network of cultural changemakers, as well as Council (2013-2023) that favored multidisciplinary projects, at the crossroads between arts, sciences, and civil society. She also advises different philanthropic organizations and was awarded the Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award (2019).

‣ Farah Nayeri is a culture writer based in Europe. She is the author of Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age (2022), and writes on culture for The New York Times. She is also the host of the CultureBlast podcast. Originally from Iran, Farah began her journalism career in Paris as a reporter for Time Magazine and a contributor to The Wall Street Journal. She later became a correspondent for Bloomberg in Paris, Rome, and London, covering politics and economics, then switching her focus to culture. She is a classically trained pianist.

The Conversations program for Paris+ par Art Basel 2023 is curated by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou.
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