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    Artist Talk: Derek Fordjour in Conversation with Cecilia Alemani

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    Saturday, August 22, 2026

    8:00 PM

    The High Line

    New York, NY

    Scheduled

    About This Event

    Artist Derek Fordjour is in conversation with Cecilia Alemani at The High Line. Alemani, Donald R. Mullen Jr. Director and Chief Curator of High Line Art and artistic director of the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), brings a curatorial perspective to a discussion of Fordjour’s practice and recent work, situating it within contemporary exhibition-making.

    About the Artist

    Cecilia Alemani

    Cecilia Alemani is an Italian curator based in New York City. She is the Donald R. Mullen Jr. Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art and the artistic director of the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. She previously curated the 2017 Biennale's Italian pavilion and served as artistic director of the inaugural edition of the 2018 Art Basel Cities in Buenos Aires, held in 2018.