Survival of The Artist: Representing the Artist

This session explores the efforts of collectors and institutions to protect artists at risk and reflects on issues of representation of these artists within national and international spaces. Speakers include:

William Wells (Town House Gallery, Cairo)

Shireen Atassi (Atassi Foundation, Syria)

Al Mawred Al Thaqafy (Artists at Risk, Beirut)

Hammad Nasar (curator and writer)

Chair: Dr. Anthony Downey (Editor-in-Chief of Ibraaz and Professor of Visual Culture in North Africa and the Middle East, Birmingham City University).