Fall 2017 seminar: Ph.D. candidate, history of art, archaeology, and visual studies
Lara Fresko's work considers contemporary art as a site of the sublime and spectral reverberations of national, ideological, violent, and traumatic histories. Particularly, her work focuses on contemporary art from Turkey produced between 1990–2015 and its source materials in the long 20th century. Drawing from heterodox art historians such as Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin and in dialogue with theories of aesthetics and representation, psychoanalytic theories, and memory studies, her project engages contemporary art in its mediation of socio-political and historical processes.