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Session 2 | 2024-2025

The Hypothèses team is pleased to invite you to our second session entitled “Looking Back to Revise: Borduas et Zeid à la lumière de nouvelles historiographies.” It will take place on Wednesday, October 30th at 5:30 pm at La Guilde gallery.

Cette séance propose des conférences de Alexis Janssen (maîtrise, Concordia) « The Extractive and Transatlantic Modernism of Paul-Émile Borduas’ 1942 Gouaches » et de Isabelle Burrows (maîtrise, Concordia) « The Politics of Revisionist Historiography in Tate Modern’s Fahrelnissa Zeid Retrospective ». Dr. Monia Abdallah, professeure à UQAM, modérera la séance.

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Isabelle Burrows

Isabelle Burrows is a second-year MA student in Art History at Concordia University. She received a BA (first class with distinction) in Humanities from Simon Fraser University. Her MA thesis (in-progress), “Remembering, (Re)-forgetting, and Revisionism: The Corporate Politics of Institutional Historiography in the case of Fahrelnissa Zeid at Tate Modern,” investigates canons of modernity and the influences of capitalism on art institutions.

Alexis Janssen

Alexis Janssen is a second-year MA student in art history at Concordia University in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal. He holds a BA with First class Honours in Art History from McGill University. Using post- and anti-colonial approaches, Alexis’ research critically investigates the appropriation of global Indigenous arts by modernist settler Canadian artists and situates Canadian art within global dynamics of colonialism.

Modération - Monia Abdallah

Monia Abdallah est professeure au département d’histoire de l’art de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM). Ses recherches portent sur les pratiques artistiques contemporaines dites du Moyen-Orient ainsi que sur l’histoire des modernismes artistiques en-dehors de l’Europe et de l’Amérique du Nord. Ses publications s’intéressent aux discours qui lient art, Islam et modernités, et plus spécifiquement sur la notion d’art islamique contemporain.