event

Reading Session with Ava Binta Giallo

reading session

Monday, 23/09/2024, 6 pm
Venue: philomena+, Heinestraße 40, 1020 Vienna

Ava Binta Giallo, Untitled, 2024, photo: Ibrahim Dirani.

Ava Binta Giallo’s artistic practice centres on ecological issues, the relationship between humans, the cosmos and the living world, as well as explorations of architectural space. Together with the artist, we will read and discuss Lesley Lokko’s text ‘African Space Magicians’, a poem by Alexis Pauline Gumbs from the book ‘Spill’ and the preface ‘De l’implicite en architecture (Aphorismes)’ written by Hassan Fathy for the book Buch “Le m’zab. une leçon d’architecture” by André Ravéreau, proposed and translated into English by the artist Younes Ben Slimane.

artists

AVA BINTA GIALLO

is a German-Guinean interdisciplinary artist living and working between Vienna/Austria and Mindelo/Cabo Verde. They studied TransArts (University of applied Arts in Vienna), Painting and Critical Studies (Academy of fine Arts in Vienna). Giallo's work spans from abstract painting to film, installation and sculpture. In their practice they explore the liminal areas between the visible and the invisible, canvas and motif, as well as living body and architectural space as a vehicle for an experimental exploration around issues of memory and trace. They exhibited among others at Forum Frohner, DAS WEISSE HAUS, Basis Frankfurt, Kunstverein Langenhagen, PACT Zollverein, Parallel Vienna, Exhibit Gallery, Fotogalerie Wien, Heiligenkreuzerhof University Gallery, Centro Cultural do Mindelo and Baltasar Lopes Foundation.