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Wales Venice 10 Fellows Visit to Whitechapel Gallery

On 24 February, we organised a day-long event at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, for the Wales Venice 10 Fellows. The bright, open space at Whitechapel Gallery with views over East London’s iconic skyline was the perfect backdrop for a day of inspiring talks, discussions and gallery visits.

 

Thank you to all four speakers, who collectively provided insight into different considerations, alternatives and what it might mean to ‘work internationally’. Viviana Checchia, Residency Curator at Delfina Foundation, brought a deep perspective and approach to definitions within the context of her work as part of the nomadic curatorial organisation Vessel in southern Italy. Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, critic, curator and lecturer spoke to the use of language in contemporary art, raising questions around meaning, translation and histories while connecting to how the Welsh Language and lost languages create connections to place and time.

 

Mariam Zulfiqar, Director of Artangel developed a conversation on ‘How do you think about your work in a public space,’ a whistle-stop crit looking at work in progress of WV10 artists and how they examine and understand the conditions and opportunities presented by engaging differing publics. Lastly, Katrina Brown, founding Director of The Common Guild, Glasgow, joined us virtually to talk about ‘International and Events’, outlining her experience and the conditions of the various programming strands of The Common Guild as well as her directorship of the first iterations of the Glasgow International festival.

 

All topics prompted extensive discussion among the Fellows, opening out into nuanced understanding of the art world and the potentiality of their places within it.

 

Find out more about the Wales Venice 10 partnership

 

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A group of people sat on chairs in a bright white room listening to a woman wearing black talking and gesturing as she delivers a talk to them.
A group of people sat on chairs in a bright white room listening to a woman wearing glasses who is talking them through zoom which is displayed on a screen in front of them.
A group of people sat on chairs in a bright white room listening to a man wearing black talking and gesturing to the presentation on screen.
A group of people sat on chairs in a bright white room listening to a woman talking alongside a presentation which is displayed on a large screen.

Wales Venice 10 Fellows

Wales Venice 10 Fellows Visit to Whitechapel Gallery

Farah Allibhai

A black and white photo of a woman called Phoebe Davies. She is wearing a black t-shirt. She has short wavy hair. Her elbow is leaning on the table and her head is resting on her hand.

Phoebe Davies

A man called Paul Eastwood is sat on the ground with his legs crossed and his chin resting in his interlocked hands. He is wearing a blue shirt, wears round glasses and has a moustache. He is sat in front of a hanging tapestry.

Paul Eastwood

A woman called Heledd C Evans is looking directly towards the camera with a slight smile. She has brown bobbed hair with a fringe. She is wearing gold hooped earrings. It is a close-up image of her face.

Heledd C Evans

Rebecca Jagoe is wearing theatrical red and cream clothes and reading from A4 paper. Their face cannot be seen from the angle of the photograph. Behind them, you can see an audience of people watching them perform.

Rebecca Jagoe

A woman called Rhiannon Lowe is outside in a London street. She is wearing a black t-shirt that says '#STAND BY YOUR TRANS'. She is talking through a red and white speaker phone. Behind her is a tree and a white building.

Rhiannon Lowe

A black and white portrait photo of a man called Owain Train McGilvary. He is wearing a pale-coloured jumper and he has short hair.

Owain Train McGilvary

A woman called Cinzia Mutigli is smiling directly at the camera. She is wearing a black t-shirt and has long dark hair.

Cinzia Mutigli

A woman called Cynthia MaiWa Sitei looks at a black and white photograph to her right-hand side. She has dark braided afro hair and is wearing a black leather jacket and long dangly earrings.

Cynthia MaiWa Sitei

Wales Venice 10 Fellows Visit to Whitechapel Gallery

Jennifer Taylor