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In conjunction with the exhibition Words and Places: Etel Adnan, the Wattis Institute, and the graduating class of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Studies at the California College of the Arts present a series of talks and film screenings that examine issues called up by Adnan’s practice, and expand its frame of reference.
Wednesday, May 29
A public screening and conversation between Minoo Moallem, Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at UC Berkeley and Antonia Marsh, one of the curators of Words and Places: Etel Adnan. A discussion of issues surrounding female identity in the Middle East will follow a screening of Lebanese filmmaker Rania Stephan's documentary The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni (2011). This event will be held at the Kadist Art Foundation, 3295 20th Street, San Francisco.
Words and Places: Etel Adnan is the first large-scale institutional exhibition of work by the Lebanese writer, poet, and painter Etel Adnan, spanning six decades of her artistic practice. Born in Beirut in 1925 to a Christian Greek mother and a Muslim Syrian father, Adnan has spent her life between places—Beirut, Paris, and the Bay Area—negotiating their different cultures and languages, as well as her distinctive position among them. This experience of displacement deeply informs her work, which similarly ranges between mediums and formats. Her work has recently been included in dOCUMENTA (13) (Kassel, Germany, 2012) and the Serpentine Gallery Map Marathon (London, 2010).
For more information on this event and the exhibition, please visit the Wattis website at [www.wattis.org].
