Hear a tale of two perspectives. Gather for this monthly talks series focusing on different viewpoints of select works in the exhibition, hosted by NGV specialists and guest commentators. 

This program is Auslan interpreted.

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Picasso’s circle was as politically as it was creatively engaged. In times of great uncertainty, inequality and change, artists like Picasso, Edouard Pignon and André Fougeron, and the writers and poets they connected with, used their craft as a medium for critical discussion and drawing attention to what was happening in the world around them. This session looks at art and politics, with references to the exhibition as well as contemporary artistic practice. 

Host

Laurie Benson, Curator, International Art, NGV

Speaker

Hoda Afshar explores the nature and possibilities of documentary image-making. Working across photography and moving-image, the artist considers the representation of gender, marginality, and displacement. In her artworks, Afshar employs processes that disrupt traditional image-making practices, play with the presentation of imagery, or merge aspects of conceptual, staged and documentary photography. Recent exhibitions include; Speak the Wind, Monash Gallery of Art (2022), Aich Triennial, Japan (2022), WE CHANGE THE WORLD, National Gallery of Victoria (2021), PHOTO International Festival of Photography in Melbourne (2021), Between the Sun and the Moon: Lahore Biennale (2020), Remain, UQ Museum of Art in Brisbane (2019), Beyond Place Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego CA, USA (2019) and Primavera 2018, Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. In 2015, she received the National Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, in 2018 won Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Australia and in 2021 she received the Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship for outstanding talent and exceptional courage. Hoda is represented by Milani Gallery in Australia.