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Afterall ArtSchool Q&A: Yuriko Jackall on Labille-Guiard's Feminist Portrait

other · 2026-04-22

Afterall ArtSchool has published a Q&A video featuring Yuriko Jackall, the Curator of French Paintings at the Wallace Collection, in dialogue with Mick Finch, an artist and Professor of Research at CSM. Their conversation explores themes of feminism and friendship as depicted in Adélaïde Labille-Guiard's 1785 artwork 'Self Portrait With Two Pupils'. This video was made available on July 20, 2020. Additionally, the page highlights upcoming Afterall events, including a talk by Malaysian artist Sharon Chin about her 2022 piece 'Creatures on the Move (In the Death of the Night)' scheduled for January 31, 2024; a discussion with Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza regarding Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' on April 11, 2023; and a two-part symposium titled 'Precarious Solidarities: Artists for Democracy (1974–77)' conducted on February 2, 2023, in collaboration with various institutions.

Key facts

  • Yuriko Jackall is Curator of French Paintings at the Wallace Collection.
  • Mick Finch is an artist and CSM Professor of Research.
  • The Q&A discusses Adélaïde Labille-Guiard's 'Self Portrait With Two Pupils' from 1785.
  • The video was published on July 20, 2020.
  • Sharon Chin is a Malaysia-based artist.
  • Her work 'Creatures on the Move (In the Death of the Night)' is from 2022.
  • Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza discussed Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' on April 11, 2023.
  • The symposium 'Precarious Solidarities' was held on February 2, 2023.

Entities

Artists

  • Yuriko Jackall
  • Mick Finch
  • Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
  • Sharon Chin
  • Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza
  • Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
  • Elisa Adami
  • Alex Schady
  • Arianna Mercado
  • Camille Crichlow
  • Wing Chan
  • David Morris

Institutions

  • Afterall
  • Afterall ArtSchool
  • Wallace Collection
  • CSM (Central Saint Martins)
  • Afterall Exhibition Histories
  • Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College
  • Asia Art Archive
  • Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg
  • Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Locations

  • Malaysia
  • London
  • United Kingdom
  • New York
  • United States
  • Hong Kong
  • Gothenburg
  • Sweden

Sources