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Elles font l’art, which is the title of les MOOC programme created by Center Pompidou in Paris to honour women in modern and contemporary art history. On this occasion, the Alliance Française Bahrain joined forces with a panel of women artists and specialists in the art world. The panel therefore seizes this opportunity to highlight female artists from the Gulf and explore with them their own realities and the structures that condition their identity as female artists. This round table will allow another reading of art history through their career, their art and their place in society.
  

The speakers:

Thérèse St-Gelais is professor in the Department of Art History and Director of the Institute for Feminist Research and Studies at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM).

Océane Sailly is a PhD student in Sociology at the Sorbonne Nouvelle and founder of HUNNA / هُنَّ, an art gallery and digital platform aimed at promoting emerging women artists from the Arabian Peninsula and contributing to the development of critical and intersectional discourse.

Wadha Al-Aqeedi is the co-founder of Mathqaf, a curator and an art historian, lives and works between Paris and Doha. Al-Aqeedi was trained in museology at University College London and in history at Paris IV. She is currently a doctoral student at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, her research is based on the history of performance and its contemporary practices in the Arab world since the 1980s.

Alymamah Rashed is a Kuwaiti visual artist who works on the discourse of her own body as a Muslim cyborg, fluctuating between east and west.

Alia Zaal Lootah is an Emirati visual artist and curator. Formerly Assistant Curator for Contemporary and Modern Art at Louvre Abu Dhabi, Alia has undertaken a PhD at the Sorbonne Paris VI (UPMC). Her research focuses on the history and development of the visual arts in the UAE, the effects of globalisation and the Fourth Revolution on the production, terminology and visual identity of visual arts in the UAE and elsewhere in the world.
  

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• Milan, Italy
• www.mathqaf.com
  + 54544484888
• from 11 to 12