Скачать или смотреть Introduction by Garage Curator Snejana Krasteva. Rasha Salti and Koyo Kouoh. Curators’ Notes

Rasha Salti was born in Lebanon in 1969. She is a curator and writer and presently an international programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival. From 2004 to 2010, she was the film programmer and creative director of ArteEast in New York. Salti’s essays have appeared in publications such as Afterall, The London Review of Books, and Naqd, and she edited the book Insights into Syrian Cinema: Essays and Conversations with Filmmakers (2006). Salti lives in Beirut and works between Paris and Toronto.

Koyo Kouoh was born in Switzerland in 1967. She is an exhibition maker and the founding artistic director of RAW Material Company, a center for art, knowledge, and society in Dakar. She is the curator of the education program at 1:54, Contemporary African Art Fair in London. She served as curatorial advisor for documenta 12 (2007) and 13 (2012). Her most recent projects include Body Talk: Feminism, Sexuality and the Body in the work of Six African Women Artists, WIELS, Lunds Konsthal, 49N6E - FRAC Lorraine (2015). Besides a sustained theoretical and exhibition program at RAW Material Company, she maintains a dynamic international curatorial, advisory, and judging activity. Kouoh lives and works in Dakar and Basel.