Our current artist/curator in residence Myriam Amroun and curator Natasha Marie Llorens propose curatorial practice as a form of artistic research that goes beyond “metaphorizing decolonization.” The project has four principle aims: to centre the knowledge produced by the practice of curating (rather than that which it simply presents in the exhibition); to experiment with infrastructures that support “minor transnational” relationality; to experiment with institutional scale in relation to the exhibition; to work from and between two important margins of the European project—the Nordic region and North Africa—in an embodied manner that nevertheless acknowledges our distance from both.
During their residency at NKF's guest studio the duo will meet with artists, curators and other practitioners whose practice touches similar ground. They will use Stockholm as a base for several short trips within the Nordic region to meet with collaborators, and they will organize two events in February that reflects this period of fieldwork and makes public some of the methodological questions they encounter in this first phase of research.
More information on the project is available online, including an interview conducted by the Royal Institute of Art, and an essay published on Contemporary Art Stavanger in July 2024, “Decoloniality and Minor Transnationalism in Curatorial Practice: Notes on a Framework,” which gives detailed background and the theoretical framework for the project. The first reference group includes Murtaza Vali, Lara Khaldi, Lisa Rosendahl, and Aude Christel. The first of several associated exhibitions will take place at Tromsø Kunstforening in 2026.