Episode 18 meets Natasha Marie Llorens, an academic and curator focused on North African and Middle Eastern contemporary art and film. She has written for numerous publications including ArtReview, ArtForum and Frieze. In 2019, Llorens opened a significant group exhibition at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery that addressed contemporary art from Algeria and its diaspora. The exhibition has since seen iterations at the Friche la Belle de Mai in Marseille and will soon open in Grenoble. The accompanying catalogue, Waiting for Omar Gatlato: A Survey of Contemporary Art from Algeria and Its Diaspora is published by Sternberg Press. Llorens is currently researching on Algerian socialism in the 1970s and planning an exhibition in collaboration with artist Massinissa Selmani. She joined me from Algiers to discuss this project and the process of bringing Algerian art to New York.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.