Organized in conjunction with the DIA's "Shirin Neshat" exhibition, GLOBAL IMAGINARIES│Individual Realities is a series of lectures that establishes a platform for artists and their communities to enter into a wider conversation about socially engaged art.
Based in Paris, Esther Shalev-Gerz is internationally recognized for her seminal contributions to the field of art in the public realm and her consistent investigation into the nature of democracy, cultural memory and the politics of public space. For more than 20 years her work has focused on interventions and projects in public space, taking the form of collaboration and exchange with the audience. Her installations and photographic work raise questions on group memory and its interaction with personal history and souvenir. In these commemorative monuments, installations, video and photographic works, questions about history are posed, and its relationship with collective memory is explored and investigated.
She is a Professor at Valand School of Fine Arts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden where she is currently leading an international research project on "Trust and the Unfolding Dialogue" funded by the Swedish Research Council.
This lecture is sponsored by Friends of Modern and Contemporary Art and the Center for the Study of Citizen at Wayne State University in conjunction with the exhibition 'Shirin Neshat', organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts. Generous support has been provided by the MetLife Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, and Marjorie & Maxwell Jospey Foundation. Additional support has been provided by the City of Detroit.
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