Leeza Ahmady (New York)

Synopsis: In her opening remarks on day 2 of FIELD MEETING forum hosted at the remarkable Concrete hall of Alserkal Avenue in Dubai, Ahmady touched on the significance of this edition’s framework “collections,” and her notion of “seeing the artist as the first collector”. Quoting from her written curatorial narrative she discussed how: “For centuries, artists and other creative individuals have gathered all things physical and conceptual in their effort to create bodies or containers of insights that, at some point in time, become identified as art objects.” She encouraged the audience members made up of many of the MANASA region’s distinguished arts professionals to contemplate these interpretations on ‘colleting and collections’ also through the diverse and nuanced presentations of the invited artists, curators, and creative practitioners’ especially and newly conceived talks, performances, lecture-performances and pop-up installations throughout the day at FIELD MEETING Take 6: Thinking Collections.

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