RAW Material Company invites you to a conversation around the work of Filipino-Canadian artist Juliane Foronda, with curator Fatou Kiné Diouf, on Friday April 22, 2022 at 6:00 pm.
Through site visits, tours, conversations, and the RAW Base resource library, Juliane's research while in residence is focused on the relationship between textiles and care. She has also been learning about Senegalese hosting traditions (« Teranga »), going to the market, and is graciously being taught how to cook Senegalese food by Aminata, Flavienne, and Fatou.
About Juliane Foronda
Juliane Foronda (she/her) is a Filipina-Canadian artist, organizer and writer. Predominantly through object, intervention and text, her practice is invested in notions of radical care, feminist hospitality, and traditions of gathering. Juliane received her MA in Fine Arts from Listaháskóli Íslands/Iceland University of the Arts, and her BA in Studio Art from the University of Guelph. She's currently based in Glasgow, Scotland and Toronto, Canada.
« We welcome Juliane Foronda to RAW as part of a wider exchange programme with Cove Park, an international artist residency centre on the west coast of Scotland. This project, supported by British Council Scotland, began last year with a residency at Cove Park for two members of our team, Dulcie Abrahams Altass and Fatima Bintou Rassoul Sy. It has continued with the artist Ibrahima Thiam’s residency at Cove Park (February/March). »
About Fatou Kiné Diouf
Fatou Kiné Diouf studied English and Political Science at the universities of Paris Sorbonne and Paris 8. She has experience in research, curating, project management and visual arts. Her practice hinges on studies of inequalities and discrimination through culture, with a focus on gender, sexuality and belonging. She is a fellow alumni of CURA (Raw Material Company) and YCA (Gorki Theater), two programs dedicated to young curatorial practitioners
She notably curated the "T'étais habillée comment ? Lan nga soloon ?" exhibition at the Musée de la Femme Henriette Bathily. The exhibition tackles the issue of rape through the questioning of that phrase that rape victims often receive and that aim at putting the blame on them : "What were you wearing"?
She recently founded A.D.N, a creative agency which helms the fashion brand TEY. She is currently the project researcher for the British Academy funded project Development and Education in the Vernacular for Infants and Children in West Africa (DEVI).
She is based in Dakar and Accra and is active in different feminist and artistic collectives.