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In this talk, Emma Chubb will examine the centrality of migration during the postcolonial period (1956-1999) to contemporary art made in Morocco at the turn of the 21st century. Focusing on Younès Rahmoun’s site-specific permanent sculpture, Ghorfa 4 Al-Âna/Hunâ (Room 4, Now/Here) (2008), in the Rifi village of Beni Boufrah, Chubb will address the challenges posed by this “strange hut” to making and viewing art in rural Morocco, including how postcolonial migration transformed the Rif’s built environment.

Emma Chubb recently received her PhD from the Department of Art History at Northwestern University. Her dissertation examined the relationship between national identity, visual representation, minority communities, and postcolonial migration in Morocco and its diaspora. She contributes regularly to exhibitions and research projects in the region, most recently at L'appartement 22 (Rabat) and Mathaf (Doha).

She has been named the inaugural Charlotte Feng Ford ’83 Curator of Contemporary Art at the Smith College Museum of Art. Her appointment is effective July 10, 2017.