About the Curators

Dr Georgia Nasseh is Research Fellow in the Literatures of the Global South at King’s College, University of Cambridge. She completed a DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford in 2023. While her research is mainly concerned with multilingualism in the Portuguese-speaking world, she has cultivated an interest in collage as a method, practice, and pedagogy. In 2023, she co-convened the symposium Collage Comparison, in partnership with the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT) Research Centre and the Bodleian Libraries’ Centre for the Study of the Book, which brought together a multi-disciplinary group of academics and artists to reflect on collage’s potential for comparative and decolonial thought. She is the recipient of the 24–25 BRIDGE Fellowship.

Gillian Fleischmann is an artist and cultural producer interested in curatorial practices. With a BA in Fine Arts (Hons) from the University of the Witwatersrand and a background in photography, she is interested in decolonial ways of thinking through the photographic medium and exploring alternative forms of knowledge production. She works as Curatorial Assistant at the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria (Javett-UP), where she has been involved in Javett-UP’s booth at the 2024 and 2023 FNB Art Joburg. Fleischmann has worked on the following exhibitions: We, the Purple (2024), Specifications for a Reverse Archaeology (2023), SCENORAMA (2022) and its travelling iteration to eThekwini in 2023, and Buffer Zones (2022). She coordinated the publication Handle with Care, which received the HSS Award under the category Best Exhibition Catalogue in 2024.

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