Event #2 - Curatorial Practices and Potentialities

A manual of practices and operations around
creating and curating projects

Natasha Christia talk
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
19th September
6.30-8pm
Please email to book - mail@islandphotographersgroup.com

In her lecture, Natasha will share the 'toolbox' of operations she uses for her practice and research. She will provide insight into past projects and outline how she blends various voices and narrative devices to create interdisciplinary art projects within an exhibition space. Natasha will illustrate how she formalises, activates, and amplifies an art project within a space. She will propose a series of operations centered on contradictory concepts, allowing novel visibilities and enabling alternative horizons and understandings of the world.

Natasha Christia is a curator, writer, and educator based in Barcelona. Her curatorial research focuses on the photographic document's complicity and potential role in the revision of dominant historical narratives and ideological myths. She has curated various exhibitions, among them, AMORE: An Unfinished Trilogy by Valentina Abenavoli (Void/Athens Photo Festival, 2017), Dragana Jurisic: My Own Unknown (Centre Culturel Irlandais, Photo Sant Germain, 2017), Reversiones (Centro de la Imagen, Mexico DF, 2017), Lukas Birk: Travelogue Sammlung (Galerie Lustenau, Austria 2018) and You Are What You Eat (Krakow Photomonth 2019), ACTS I-VII by Oculi, (PHOTO 2022 Ιnternational Festival of Photography-Benalla Gallery, Australia), Kate Nolan: Lacuna (Centre Culturel Irlandais, Photo Sant Germain, 2023). Since 2021, she has been developing thematic areas based on photobooks: Closed Circle-Lived Relation (Panoramic Festival, Barcelona, 2021); War at a Distance (SCAN Festival 2022); and This Story Will Never Get Finished (SCAN Festival 2023). Natasha Christia regularly contributes essays on photography criticism for international publications and artists. In 2019, she edited with Lukas Birk (FraglichPublishing) "Gulistan" (winner of the PHotoEspanã BestPhotobookAward 2019, International Category). She has been a jury member of the Unseen Dummy Award, Kassel Dummy Award 2021, and Concurso Fotocanal 2020.