Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Elora Weill-Engerer is the 2024 award-winner of TRAVERSES, a scheme that supports art criticism, and which since 2016 has brought together l'Institut français, in partnership with the ministère de la Culture-Direction générale de la création artistique, and the Archives de la critique d'art in order to promote French criticism and theoretical writing.This programme, which conducts an annual call for papers, advocates for the production, publication, and dissemination of a critical essay on an international issue in the visual arts.The goal is to suggest alternative pathways that enable original intellectual projects to come to fruition quickly.The award allows the prize-winners to travel to one or more artistic events of their choosing, to benefit from editorial support from Critique d'art, to have their work published in French and in English, and to ensure that their essays are widely available to an international readership.Elora Weill-Engerer's article explores the issues of identity at work in Roma artistic practices as seen through the lens of several European solo and group exhibitions that showcased the work of contemporary Roma artists in 2024.Her essay, which draws on the history of Roma art from the 1960s to the present day, analyses how Roma artists from a variety of backgrounds reappropriate the representation of Romanipen and affirm the plurality of Roma identities within transnational collective and intersectional dynamics.While the essay raises the question of the works' visibility, its primary focus is a consideration of exhibition venues as spaces of political negotiation Institutions and Minorities: The Places of Roma Artistic and Political Emanci...
Source: Critique d’art
DOI: 10.4000/12xbt
Author: Elora Weill-Engerer
Language: English
Topic: Romani and Gypsy Studies
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4405351697