Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani

Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani is an independent scholar and curator of Southeast Asian contemporary art. Her research and curatorial practice revolve around critical sociopolitical issues in Southeast Asia, advocating a counter-hegemonic and non-Western-centric discourse. Her articles have appeared in several academic journals such as Visual Anthropology, Routledge UK;  Photographies, Routledge and University of Westminster UK;  Frames Cinema Journal, University of St Andrews, UK; Convocarte: Revista de Ciências da Arte, Lisbon University, Portugal; and M.A.tter Unbound, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, among others. Together with Patrick D. Flores, she co-edited the anthology Interlaced Journeys: Diaspora and the Contemporary in Southeast Asian Art, published in 2020 by Osage Art Foundation, Hong Kong. 

Notable museum exhibitions she has curated include Matrilineal solo show by Jakkai Siributr at 100 Tonson Foundation, Bangkok (2024); Déjà vu: When the Sun Rises in the West solo show by Natee Utarit at Silpakorn Art Center, Bangkok (2022); Homecoming /Eventually at UP Vargas Museum, Manila, Philippines (2021); Diaspora: Exit, Exile, Exodus of Southeast Asia at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Thailand (2019); and Architectural Landscapes: SEA in the Forefront for InToAsia: Time Based Art Festival 2015 at Queens Museum, New York. Loredana served as one of the curators for the Bangkok Art Biennale 2022.