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Participating artists:
Naima Hassan, Associate Curator and Archivist at Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F) and Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation.

Venue:
HGB, Room 2.47

As part of the multi-year Re:assemblages programme, Hassan asks: how can we think with African and Afro-diasporic art archives as living, contested, and future-shaping spaces? Drawing on her curatorial work on the forthcoming Re:assemblages symposium (4–5 November), she will situate G.A.S. Foundation, Lagos in a broader ecosystem of new African art knowledge institutions creating spaces of experimental teaching and encounter.
The session will conclude at the borders of Hassan’s personal practice with a screening of the SITAAD film Oral History Letter: Leyla’s Mother, Hawa S. (2024), produced with Leyla Degan. The film traces vignettes of a former photographic studio in Mogadishu through essay film, photo elicitation, and Degan’s mother’s memories.
Students will be invited to reflect on the references presented to consider new ways of experimenting at the borders of practices, visual archives and geographies.

Naima Hassan is a researcher, curator, and archivist based in Berlin.  
Her practice foregrounds alternative epistemologies, curatorial and archival ethics, with a focus on the epistemic transformation of postcolonial collections and memory cultures. She currently leads Re:assemblages, jointly developed with Guest Artists Space Foundation and Yinka Shonibare Foundation, as Associate Curator and Archivist. In 2022, she founded SITAAD, a platform dedicated to supporting archival research on Somalia and its diaspora. Hassan was a member of the 2024–25 New Currents: Indian Ocean Futures Working Group and currently serves on the Steering Board of TheMuseumsLab.