As part of ICI’s Curator’s Perspective—an itinerant public discussion series featuring international curators—Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath will present a talk titled Tea with Nefertiti.
For their Curator's Perspective, Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath will discuss the curatorial concept behind their traveling exhibition Tea with Nefertiti: the making of an artwork by the artist, the museum and the public. Through employing the Nefertiti bust as a metaphorical thread, and by employing Egypt as a case in point, Bardaouil and Fellrath illustrate how artworks become tools to construct images of a specific culture.
In their talk, the curators reference select juxtapositions of historic, modern and contemporary artworks from the exhibition to illustrate their critique of conventional museum and art-historical classifications. By interrogating the contested history of Egyptian museum collections, they shed light on how an artwork acquires different agencies when it travels through time and place.
Tea with Nefertiti was presented at Mathaf - Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha (2012), IMA - Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris (2013), IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern in Valencia (2013) and SMÄK – State Museum of Egyptian Art in Munich (2014). Consequently, Bardaouil and Fellrath discuss the significance of drawing from the permanent collections of each of these four museums to adapt the exhibition to largely different cultural contexts and audiences.
Please RSVP to rsvp@curatorsintl.org with SAM & TILL in the subject line.
