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A Right to Determine Value: Ibrahim Mahama in conversation with Thomas Aquilina
[Left] Ibrahim Mahama, 2017. Photo © White Cube (George Darrell). [Right] Image credit: © Gabriella Demczuk.
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04 Feb 2026
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Featuring artist Ibrahim Mahama as keynote speaker, followed by a conversation with Thomas Aquilina, Co-Director of Spatial Justice at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Aquilina will frame the event around his experience of embedding a human rights-based approach into public space both locally and globally; drawing on his 2025 essay, “Who’s right, what right, and where’s that right?”. Aquilina and Mahama will consider the framing ​of art as a basic human right and explore how Mahama's experimental approach towards regeneration, restitution and repatriation involves communities from the outset to inform future generations’ engagement with art practice.

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