Anahi Alviso-Marino
Research engineer
Ecole des ponts ParisTech - ENPC
LVMT's Research Axis :
Theme 1 Mobility practices, Access to the city, Urban imaginaries
Biography, career
I am a political scientist interested in the sociological lives of objects made by visual artists across cities of the Arabian Peninsula. My methodological approach intersects social sciences and artistic practices. I have conducted fieldwork in Yemen, Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and France, focusing more recently on archives and the study of public monumental artworks and previously, on proposing a political sociology of visual arts in Yemen. Currently, I am a researcher fellow and co-coordinator at the collective “Penser l’urbain par l’image,” Ecole des Ponts ParisTech/University Gustave Eiffel. After I completed my MA from Columbia University in New York and her BA from Complutense University in Madrid, I obtained a PhD in Political Science at the University Paris 1-Sorbonne and the University of Lausanne. Besides publishing my work, I have exhibited my research and archival materials in Paris (Palais de Tokyo, Villa Vassilieff and Bétonsalon) and Spain (Casa Arabe). My forthcoming book focuses on art and politics in Yemen, and I am presently working on a research-creation project dedicated to mapping monument biographies across the Arabian Peninsula supported by two collaborative grants from the EUR ArTeC (2021) and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts (2021/2022), and by two individual research residencies at Alserkal Arts Foundation (2022) and at the Henry Moore Foundation (forthcoming, 2023).