Roundtable with Manal AlDowayan

Roundtable with Manal AlDowayan, Jessica Cerasi, Maya El Khalil, Camille Morineau and Jeanne Brun

The event will be in English, with simultaneous translation in French.

Manal AlDowayan is one of Saudi Arabia’s most significant contemporary artists working internationally. Her work, which spans various mediums including photography, sound, sculpture, and participatory practice, interrogates traditions, collective memories, and the status and representation of women. AlDowayan is currently representing Saudi Arabia at the 60th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale.

Jessica Cerasi is a curator based in Abu Dhabi, Istanbul and London. She was most recently Associate Curator for the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi project at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation. She has previously worked as Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the UK Government Art Collection, Assistant Curator of the 2019 Venice Biennale, Assistant Curator of the 2016 Biennale of Sydney, Exhibitions Manager at Carroll/Fletcher gallery, and Curatorial Assistant at London’s Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre. She has taught a popular course on Demystifying Contemporary Art at Tate Modern, and is the co-author of Who’s Afraid of Contemporary Art, published in 2017.

Maya El Khalil is a Lebanese curator and cultural advisor based in Oxford, UK. She collaborates with international institutions on progressive socially engaged projects, developing multidisciplinary exhibitions with a focus on addressing the environmental and climate emergency.  As founding director of Athr Gallery in Jeddah from 2009–2016, she pioneered exhibition approaches and cultural exchange in the absence of local public art institutions. For the last decade, she has continued to work locally, regionally and internationally with artists, collectors and institutions to develop the identity and ideas that have defined an art scene, building bridges between the Arab gulf and the world.
 

Camille Morineau is a heritage curator and art historian specialising in women artists, and is the co-founder and Director of Research at AWARE (Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions). Based on the observation that women are under-represented or even totally absent from art books, exhibitions, and museum collections, AWARE's mission is to contribute to the visibility of women artists by creating, indexing and disseminating information on women artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Jeanne Brun is Deputy Director of the Musée national d'art moderne - Centre Pompidou