Right to Gaze: Meditations on the Imaginary Self

What is the ‘telling practice’ of a photograph? What is the liaison between the colonial history of photography as a vehicle towards the reclamation of a sense of individual or collective selfhood? The discussion will interrogate the role of the body and ancestral memories in re-creating individual and collective memories in the Diaspora whilst focusing on the dichotomy between reality and fiction through the practice of emerging contemporary artists.

With:⁣

Adaeze Ihebom, photographer and researcher

Eleonora Sabet, portraitist and documentary author

Alia Romagnoli, photographer, and visual artist

In conversation with Mistura Allison and Himasha S. Weerappulige, co-founders and curators, ashiko

Presented in collaboration with ashiko⁣