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Özge Ersoy is Senior Curator at Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong. Her recent projects include co-curating Translations, Expansions (2022), AAA’s contribution to documenta fifteen, and The Collective School (2022–23), the inaugural exhibition at AAA’s newly renovated library. Her writings on cultural institutions and contemporary art have been included in Curating Under Pressure: International Perspectives on Negotiating Conflict and Upholding Integrity (Routledge, 2020) and The Constituent Museum: Constellations of Knowledge, Politics and Mediation (Valiz and L’Internationale, 2018), among others. She was Research and Programming Associate of the 13th Gwangju Biennale (2021) and Assistant Curator of Sarkis: Respiro at the Pavilion of Turkey in the 56th Venice Biennale (2015).

Plenary Session "Asia Art Archive: Artists and Archives as Storytellers"

This presentation explores the archival and curatorial practices of Asia Art Archive (AAA), an independent non-profit organization founded in 2000 with the purpose of documenting the diverse recent histories of art in the region. AAA provides a collection of primary and secondary source materials on art, which are freely accessible through its website and onsite library in Hong Kong. The organization’s mission is to develop tools and communities that collectively expand knowledge on art through research, exhibitions, residencies, and educational programs. 

Within this context, Özge Ersoy will present “mould the wing to match the photograph,” an exhibition that draws upon the archive of Mrinalini Mukherjee (1949–2015), an esteemed sculptor renowned for her experimentation of form and materiality. Ersoy will examine how the archive reconfigures our understanding and experience of Mukherjee’s artistic practice. She will also discuss the capacity of an archive to bridge archival and art historical research with artistic production, highlighting the interplay between these interconnected realms.