This panel will consider the work of the Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine (1931-1998); Jean Dubuffet's travels in Algeria and concomitant formulation of his definition of “art brut”; and the late Assia Djebar's writing on Baya at the end of the Algerian War of Independence.
Speakers include Natasha Boas, curator of the exhibition; author Omar Berrada; Denis Hollier, professor of French Literature, Thought, and Culture, NYU; and Kent Minturn, Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Baya: Woman of Algiers, on view at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery, 100 Washington Square East, from January 9 through March 31.
In English
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française and Grey Art Gallery
Image:
Baya
Femme robe jaune cheveux bleus (Woman with blue hair in a yellow dress), 1947
Gouache on board, 27 5/8 x 21 3/8 in.
Collection Jules Maeght, Paris
© Photo Galerie Maeght, Paris
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