Room 101, School of Arts and Sciences
Central Campus
As a writer, I pursue what it means to read the photograph in/as practice, across vocabularies, sensibilities, and formulations. The image—in its networked, appropriated, fractured, reassembled self—is my primary site of inquiry and research; I examine how we view and encounter it within contemporary art and curatorial practices. This presentation would highlight a few excerpts and processes from certain writing projects I undertook, responding to adjacencies and textures within word-image relationships, exhibition-making, and vocabularies in contemporary photographic practice.
Annalisa Mansukhani is a writer, researcher and curator studying histories of photography and notions of the image in contemporary art and curatorial practices. She read history for her undergraduate degree from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, and has a Master’s in art history from Nalanda University. She has previously worked at the Kochi Biennale Foundation, and is a recipient of the first Critical Collective-PhotoSouthAsia Young Writer's Award for lens-based practices in 2021. Annalisa is a contributing writer for ASAP | art , and her writing has also been published by platforms such as TAKE on Art Magazine, Write | Art | Connect and Projects/Processes (Serendipity Arts Foundation), Shared Ecologies, Hakara Bilingual, and Nether Quarterly, among others. Since 2019, as the Programmes Manager for the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) in Delhi, she has worked to establish frameworks and activate resources around art and research, spaces of exhibition, critical writing, editorial and public programming. She lives and works in New Delhi, India.
