2025 | Lecture by Jury Chair | Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Grant for Photography

Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Grant for Photography 2025

Lecture by Jury Chair

Lecture by Ahlam Shibli, The Inaccessibility of Home

Chaired by Tanvi Mishra

Seminar Halls 1, 2 & 3
Kamaladevi Complex, India International Centre, New Delhi

Sunday, 23 November 2025, 6 pm

Through a diverse selection of her photographic works, Ahlam Shibli explored the difficult nature of homeland, its inaccessibility and ambiguity, and talked about how this very problem is simultaneously responsible for the urgent need to represent what is denied representation.

Ahlam Shibli is an artist, whose work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions internationally. Her work has been presented, among others, in Pompidou Metz, LUMA Westbau, LUMA Arles, Museo ICO, Seoul Museum of Art, Fotonoviembre, IVAM, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, MSU, UGM, Remai Modern, S.M.A.K., documenta 14, Cassa di Risparmio, Camera Austria, Carré d’Art, Zachęta, Qalandiya International, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Muzeum Sztuki, MACBA, Jeu de Paume, Museu Serralves, Museo Reina Sofía, Haus der Kunst, Galeria Kombëtare e Kosovës, Thessaloniki Biennale, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Tate Modern, Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, Darat al Funun, Château de Sédières, CGAC, Pompidou Paris, Documenta 12, Bienal de São Paulo, Kunsthalle Basel, Busan Biennale, Seville Biennial, Istanbul Biennial, Torino Triennale, Yokohama Museum.