Curator-in-Residence Talk with Francesca Lazzirini

Griffin Arts Project is delighted to host a talk by Francesca Lazzarini, independent visual arts researcher and curator
About this Event

Drawing on themes from the upcoming Unfolding Desire Assembly curated by Elham Puriya Mehr and organised in partnership with the social cooperative La Collina, Trieste Contemporanea and Griffin Art Project, this curator talk reflects on the potential of “being with images otherwise”, a notion that Lazzarini is investigating as part of her PhD research at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work foregrounds how images can foster radical forms of relation, attention, and collective sense-making within the open field of the post-photographic. Rather than understanding images primarily as representations, the curator considers them as sites of encounter that exceed visual meaning.

The concepts of desire and unfolding, which lie at the heart of the project, provide the starting point for a broader discussion of with-ness, affect, and atmospheric atunement as key dimensions of Lazzarini's curatorial research. These concepts are explored not as abstract theoretical categories, but through specific artworks and artistic practices encountered in the context of Lazzarini's curatorial work, and through the relationships developed with the artists with whom she has collaborated.

Lazzarini will unpack the notion of the post-photographic against the backdrop of transformations brought about by photography’s computational turn. Rather than defining a new genre, it approaches the post-photographic as an open and mutable space through which to explore the emancipatory possibilities of living, thinking, and relating with images and through images.