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Written by French curator, writer, editor, and self-taught translatress Virginie Bobin, the essay revisits a series of workshops, exhibitions, and other collective activities that took translation as both subject and method to unsettle entrenched conceptions of language, identity, and belonging. In particular, the ambiguous notion of &#8220;untranslatability&#8221; is used as a lens through which to examine the power relations at play in those institutional, economic, and political contexts inhabited by art workers. Alongside collaborations with artists including Mercedes Azpilicueta, Serena Lee, and Mounira Al Solh, Bobin&#8217;s reflections are grounded in her experience co-founding and facilitating the editorial and curatorial platform Qalqalah \u0642\u0644\u0642\u0644\u0629\u2020, which relies on translation as a tool for the production and publication of situated knowledge in three languages\u2014French, Arabic, and English. Informed by feminist genealogies and methodologies throughout, the book maintains that collective labor and relations are key aspects of any critical practice, as exemplified in the concluding correspondence with Andrea Ancira.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AUTHOR:<\/strong> Virginie Bobin<br \/>\n<strong>PUBLISHERS:<\/strong> Sternberg Press with Villa Arson (2025)<\/p>\n<p><strong>SOFTCOVER:<\/strong> 148 pages<br \/>\n<strong>LANGUAGE:<\/strong> English<br \/>\n<strong>ISBN13:<\/strong> 978-1-915609-83-0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":46840,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[135,297,227,202,148],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-46841","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-english-en","product_cat-correspondences","product_cat-essays-en","product_cat-feminism-en","product_cat-politics-en","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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