Saturday Seminars
Fatima Hellberg
10 December 2011
3pm
Free
Every Saturday the Serpentine Gallery hosts talks and seminars for the public. This winter prominent artists, poets, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the
Lygia Pape exhibition and the Neo-Concrete movement.
This week, curator Fatima Hellberg presents the talk,
Make the Stone Stony.
Make the Stone Stony explores the manifesto as text and manifestation as act, and the slippages between the two in the practice of Lygia Pape. Here ideas and ideals of the social individual and collective body during Brazil's military regime from the mid 1960s form a point of focus.
Fatima Hellberg is a curator whose work gravitates towards questions of self-organisation and informal cultural production, with a focus on feminist discourses and approaches. Since 2009 she has been working with Electra and has curated and/or co-curated exhibitions in the UK and internationally, including
Constitution of the Damned (Landings, Oslo, 2011),
Dirty Literature (National Portrait Gallery, 2011),
Gossip, Scandal and Good Manners (The Showroom, 2010),
Who Can Afford to be an Art Worker? (Arnolfini, 2009),
Information Wants to be Free (Platform 1 Gallery, 2009). Other recent projects include work as Project Manager for Frieze Projects and researcher for Tranzit, Manifesta 8. Fatima has an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art and a BA in Visual Culture from Oxford University.
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Lygia Pape
Untitled. Tecelar (Weavings) 1958
Woodcut on Japanese paper
30 x 54 cm
Installation view
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2011
© Projeto Lygia Pape and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
