Name: Reimagining Liberation: An Open Study Session
Start: 2024-10-08T18:00
End: 2024-10-08T19:30
Location: Theater 3

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Held on Tue, Oct 8, 2024, 6:00–7:30 p.m.

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MoMA, Mezzanine, Theater 3

The Celeste Bartos Theater

This open study session brings together critically acclaimed poet Momtaza Mehri and film programmer and writer Yasmina Price to consider how images shape political imagination, and to speak to the forms of nostalgia and amnesia embedded in the making of a “golden age of African portrait photography.” These themes will be the focus of the forthcoming exhibition Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination, which will examine how portrait photographers and sitters created and circulated powerful pictures of Pan-African subjectivity and solidarity during the mid-20th century. This special event offers a view into how curators develop exhibition ideas and projects through conversation.

This open study session is organized in collaboration with the Department of Research Programs.

This event accompanies Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination.

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