Don't miss Atlanta Celebrates Photography's Closing Party and Zineb Sedira's much-anticipated ART PAPERS LIVE! lecture at Spelman College, Cosby Auditorium. Zineb Sedira's work expands the conceptual, historical, and spatial parameters of photography and videography. Over the last 15 years, her work has purposely and poetically constructed an archive of revolution. This archive posits memory as a distributed and living resource. It also casts Sedira, her numerous collaborators, and visitors to her exhibitions as memory keepers.
Staging the artist and her family, Sedira's early work mobilized the documentary to explore language and storytelling. In 2003, Sedira returned to Algeria after 15 years of absence due to the civil war. This took her work in a new direction. Since then, the Mediterranean Sea and the landscape, architecture, and complex history of Algeria—sequencing the colonial era, the Algerian War, the civil war, and the struggles of migrant youth—have consistently played major roles in her production.
Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at the Photographer's Gallery (London, 2006), Wapping Project (London, 2008), New Art Exchange (Nottingham, 2009), Pori Museum (Pori, Finland, 2009), BildMuseet (Umea, Sweden, 2010), Kunsthalle Nikolaj (Copenhagen, 2010), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2010), [mac] musée d'Art contemporain of Marseille (2010), and Prefix - Institute of Contemporary Art (Toronto, 2010).
The event, which is free and open to the public, is hosted by Spelman College Museum of Fine Art.