Wafa Gabsi

Born in Tunisia, studied Fine Art in Tunis and then earned her Master in Cultural studies from the University of Paris1, La Sorbonne. In the following year, Gabsi began more in-depth doctoral studies with the organization of an important field study concerning contemporary artists from Middle East. Actually, she???s carrying out doctoral research on contemporary southern Mediterranean artists in the international circuit of art and cultural globalization. The central question of her research is about the issue of ???arab?? identity. Gabsi works on two articles publication in 2011-2012: ???Builiding netwoks of cooperation for research in the world of art. Case study in Tunisia?? in REDES (Spanish scientific journal) and ???La singularit?© artistique face au danger de l???apanage identitaire?? in collaboration with the National Center for Scientific Research of Paris. Wafa Gabsi is also a researcher in the unity of ???Art and globalization??-in the Musem of Modern Art, Geroges Pompidou. Recently, she participated to the symposium Exploring Mobility in the Mediterranean ??“in Jordan. And in October 2011, she will present a conference in the case of The German Middle East Studies for Contemporary Research and Documentation and will be then in a residence of curatorial Studies in the Node Center of Berlin.

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“Fiction and Art practice” Interview with Larissa Sansour “A Space Exodus”
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Image as witness - Archeology of the past: Interview with Steve Sabella
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