Note to Self: How not Make an Exhibition
02 pm, Fri 21 Mar 2025
EMASI Nam Long
147 Street No.8, Nam Long Residential Area, District 7, HCMC
Language: English only
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From the organizer:
Art resists classification and categorization; expands the boundaries of perception and contours of imagination; and defies definitions, while curating is institutionally tasked to circumscribe, label, categorize, and assign singularity to multiplicity. As such, the challenge of curating as a discipline is how to unframe. The exhibitions that matter are those that, as Clarice Lispector said about writing, “try to open up somehow.”
Join speaker Sohrab Mohebbi – Director of SculptureCenter – at Nguyen Art Foundation for an intimate conversation on curating where he would share “a collection of thoughts, quotations, and misinterpretations that I have been gathering in the past few years while working as a curator. Some of these ideas were tried in exhibition form, or have guided my thinking in one way or another.”
About the speaker:
Sohrab Mohebbi is Director of SculptureCenter. Previously he served as the Kathe and Jim Patrinos Curator of the 58th Carnegie International. Mohebbi was SculptureCenter’s Curator-at-Large (2020-21), and Curator between 2018 and 2020. He was Assistant Curator at REDCAT, Los Angeles, 2014-18. He received an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and a BFA in photography from Tehran Art University.
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