Allyn Aglaïa
Writer and curator in Paris.
Écrits
Publications: The New Yorker, The New York Times, Guernica, The Atlantic, Longreads, The Atavist, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Los Angeles Times, Very Vary Veri of the Harvard School of Design, The Berlin Quarterly, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, National Geographic, The Washington Post, NPR, Reuters, The Common, Nataal, Fractal Revista Cuatrimestral, [applied] Foreign Affairs Design Lab at the University of the Applied Arts in Vienna, Moon Man Magazine, Dust Magazine, Happening Arts, etc.
Curation
Working with OFFSCREEN Paris and Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach.
Previously curated and facilitated exhibitions in New York, Lagos, etc.
Past projects and collaborators include: the United Nations, PhotoSaintGermaine, Rolf Art at Paris Photo, the London Listening Academy of the Listening Biennial, the Material Photographies Research Group, the Conservation Lab, Culturefix New York, Playa, Ucross, etc.
Worked on exhibitions and written on artists including Chantal Akerman, June Crespo, Gordon Matta-Clark, Lita Albuquerque, Rashid Johnson, Alexey Titarenko, Joël Andrianomearisoa, Rahima Gambo, Roger Ballen, etc
Études
Writing a thesis on Arte Povera and Apophaticism in the Division of Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought at the European Graduate School under the supervision of Avital Ronell.
Additional studies: Art History at L’École du Louvre; Contemporary Art Theory at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Curation at the Salzburg Academy of Fine Arts; Contemporary Art and Theory at Ashkal Alwan; Writing with Sabrina Orah Mark; Photography at Haverford College and the University of Pennsylvania; Theology at Sincletica, Montserrat.
Contact
allyn [dot] aglaia @ gmail [dot] com