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 visual artist and poet who lives and works in Vienna and Mindelo on the Cape Verde Islands. She studied TransArts at the University of Applied Arts and Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts. Ava Binta Giallo's works include poetic installations, analogue films and expansive works. Thematically, she focuses on ecological issues, the use of natural resources and the relationship between humans and the environment. Her works have already been exhibited at Exhibit, the Donaufestival in Krems, Galerie AG18, Heiligenkreuzerhof and Fotogalerie Wien, among others. In 2024, she is also involved in the Operndorf Afrika project as part of the Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut and currently presents her works at Basis Frankfurt.