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Studio VU Lecture Series and Art Papers welcomes Zineb Sedira: Memory Keepers

Presented by Vanderbilt University

November 3-November 4, 2011

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ZINEB SEDIRA: Memory Keepers

Studio VU Lecture Series: The Department of Art 2011-12 /
Thursday, November 3, 7 pm
Vanderbilt University
Furman Hall, Room 114,Nashville


Reception + ART PAPERS Issue Launch
Friday, November 4, 7:00pm
Zeitgeist Gallery
1819 21st Avenue South, Nashville


In conjunction with ART PAPERS LIVE! The premier contemporary art lecture series, these two events are sponsored by the Vanderbilt Department of Art, Vanderbilt University College  of Arts and Science and Zeitgeist Gallery. These events are free, wheelchair  accessible, and open to the public. More info on Zineb Sedira, including interviews, press + video clips, visit:  www.artpapers.org


Zineb Sedira's work expands the conceptual, historical, and spatial parameters of photography and videography. Over the last 15 years, her work has purposely and poetically constructed an archive of revolution. This archive posits memory as a distributed, living resource. It also casts Sedira, her numerous collaborators, and visitors to her exhibitions as memory keepers. Staging the artist and her family, Sedira's early work mobilized the documentary to explore language and storytelling. In 2003, Sedira returned to Algeria after 15 years of absence due to the civil war. This took her work in a new direction. Since then, the Mediterranean Sea and the landscape, architecture, and complex history of Algeria—sequencing the colonial era, the Algerian War, the civil war, and the struggles of migrant youth— have consistently played major roles in her production.

Born in Paris to Algerian parents in 1963, Zineb Sedira lives in London and works in Algiers, Paris, and London. She was named Chevalier des Ordres des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) by the French Ministry of Culture. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at the Photographer's Gallery (London, 2006), Wapping Project (London, 2008), New Art Exchange (Nottingham, 2009), Pori Museum (Pori, Finland, 2009), BildMuseet (Umea, Sweden, 2010), Kunsthalle Nikolaj (Copenhagen, 2010), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2010), [mac] musée d'Art contemporain of Marseille (2010), and Prefix - Institute of Contemporary Art (Toronto, 2010).

Her work was also featured in group shows at Tate Britain (London, 2002), Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2004, 2009), Mori Museum (Tokyo, 2005), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead, 2005), Musée d'Art Moderne of Alger (2007), Brooklyn Museum (New York, 2007), Mathaf - Arab Museum of Modern Art (Qatar, 2010), Contemporary Art Center (Thessaloniki, 2011), as well as in biennials and triennials, including the Venice Biennale (2001 and 2011), the triennial for photography and video at the Institute of Contemporary  Photography (ICP) in New York (2003), the Sharjah Biennale (2003 and 2007)  and the Folkestone Triennial (2011). She is represented by Galerie Kamel Mennour in Paris.