Hi everyone, I hope that you are well. On behalf of the team, I would like to invite you to join us this evening (7PM ET / 4PM PT) for Considering Art : Considering Enquiry, featuring the work of Silvia Rosi. Silvia Rosi tells her family's migration stories through a series of stylized self-portraits, videos and texts. The result is an enquiry into a personal history that explores wider themes around female labour, matrilineally and the power of the photographic act in Togo. At the end of the 1980’s Silvia Rosi’s parents left their home in Lomé, Togo in search of a better life in Italy. Rosi’s father was the son of a middle class Togolese family and he had hopes of progressing his studies and taking up a professional career abroad. But when Rosi’s mother arrived a year later she found him living in a shelter provided by the church and working in the fields, picking tomatoes for one Lira a box. She was more fortunate and found work quickly as a nanny. But their relationship did not survive the journey to Europe. With Rosi still an infant, her parents split up. In her series of self portraits for the Jerwood/Photoworks Award, Rosi reenacts her parents’ struggle, positioning herself as both observer of, and participant in the tensions that ultimately surrendered their relationship. In Self Portrait as my Father we find Rosi dressed in a jacket and tie, posing awkwardly with a telephone on her head. The caption reads, “In Italy, he could not find the opportunities he had dreamt of, so he decided he would leave. He picked up the phone and asked her to follow into the Netherlands.” In this tour we embark on some close looking. Together we ask: What do you see? Register HERE for your FREE e-TICKET (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/161002856879) mark and I are looking forward to seeing you later. All my best, Matt www.considering.art *** About your facilitator: mark (they/them) <https://www.linkedin.com/in/markjohnsmith/> develops and produces access platforms, programming and communities with a view toward activating art as a tool for positive political, economic and social change. To date, their work has informed cultural strategy at Arts Council UK, the British Broadcasting Corporation (History, Learning and Radio), the Beaney Museum, Canterbury City Council, GOV.UK, Kent County Council, the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Tate Galleries (Modern and Britain), Artists Space, Bureau of General Services Queer Division, The LGBT Community Center NYC, MAPP International, The New School, The New York Public Library, Village Alliance Inc, Volta Art Fair, International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020/21 Olympic and Paralympic Games. mark is a proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community and an advocate for the transformative power of art and culture for all. -- Considering.Art™ Your voice. Your idea. The contents of this email message and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and/or privileged information and may be legally protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message or their agent, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply email and then delete this message and any attachments. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, copying, or storage of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).