Mobile Home Screening

Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations

Come As You Are, Become Who You Want To Be

Bloc Cinema, Arts One Building

Fascinated by London’s diversity and by the remarkable style solutions with which Londoners greet their daily lives, the wonderfully talented and award-winning German artist and photographer Catrine Val has been taking photos of an array of QMUL’s international students and other (East) London residents during the Being Human Festival 2023. For this event -- part screening / slide show, part in-conversation event -- Catrine will talk to us about the experiences and stories she collected during three photoshoots across Queen Mary University of London’s campuses. 

Catrine will show a ‘first edit’ from her fashion shoots and will discuss how she works with her subjects to create unique and highly empathetic photographic portraits. The conversation more generally will extend to intercultural relations, migration, the peripatetic nature of ‘home’ and fine art photography as a strategy to capture and distil these experiences and the multiple identities they represent. ‘Mobile Home’ is curated by Visiting Research Fellow Jana Riedel and PhD Candidate Matthew Shaul, QMUL.

BiographiesCatrine Val is an international conceptual artist, working in the field of photography, film and performance. Her work focusses particularly on women’s often unacknowledged leadership roles in culture, philosophy and commerce. Born in Cologne where she studied at the The Academy of Media Arts, she was assistant to Austrian Conceptual artist Valie Export. She has collaborated in her work with women in India, South America, Asia and Europe. She has extensive international exhibition history and was the winner of the WMA Commission 2019, WYNG Foundation Hong Kong www.catrineval.comJana Riedel is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations at Queen Mary University of London. A cultural historian and curator with a developing interest in fashion and identity as it relates to migration and exile studies, her doctoral research established Prince Albert as a major agent of European cultural transfer. Previously, she was Arts &amp; Culture Manager at Queen Mary University where she established partnerships with Arts Council England, Tate Exchange and the Nunnery Gallery (Bow Arts Trust). She currently works as Research Projects Officer at the Victoria and Albert Museum.Matthew Shaul is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations at Queen Mary University of London. He established and ran Departure Lounge Contemporary Art (https://departure-lounge.org.uk/) in Luton from 2010 to 2022. He was artistic director at the University of Hertfordshire Galleries until 2017. He has an ongoing interest in modern and contemporary photography, in particular the photography of the former GDR. He curated the touring exhibition ‘Do Not Refreeze – Photography Behind the Berlin Wall’ – between 2007–10. He is a regular contributor to international photography festivals like Rencontres d’Arles and the Houston Fotofest.

This event is part of Being Human Festival, the UK’s national festival of the humanities, taking place 9–18 November 2023. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, with generous support from Research England, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. For further information please see beinghumanfestival.org.

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