Ms. Alinta Sara
Consultant | Independent Curator
An independent curator, researcher, and lecturer in French and African Art History at Imperial College London. She co-founded Bokantaj, promoting cultural exchange from a "south-south" perspective. Alinta has collaborated with various London galleries, including the October Gallery and Tate Modern. Her projects include "Divinations of Worlds to Come," "Our Story, Our Journey," and "The Colour of Pain." She managed the Sickle Cell Society heritage project "Our Journey, Our Story" and conducted research on the intersection of sickle cell anaemia and art. Recently, she contributed to the Artist Legacies in Museum project for Art360. Her work combines oral histories with visual arts to engage audiences.
Selected Projects:
- Colour of Pain, CLCC, Imperial College London, 2019 Exhibition: The Colour of Pain | Events | Imperial College London
- Sickle cell disorders in the UK (history, sciences & culture), webinar, Imperial College London,2020
- Our Journey,Our Story – Sickle Cell Society Our Journey » Sickle Cell Society
- Artists' Legacies in the Museum – ICF | International Curators Forum Artists' Legacies in the Museum - ICF | International Curators Forum
Selected Talks and Publications:
- "História da Anemia Falciforme no Reino Unido," Seminário Internacional pela Igualdade Racial ,Brasil (09/2021)
- Our Journey, Our Story, "Siting Power: Confronting Colonial Legacies and Racialised Histories of Health in Libraries, Museums and Archives," Wellcome Collection (10/2021)
- Visual Griot: Bringing the History of Sickle Cell Disease to the Present, Wellcome Collection, 2023 Visual griot : bringing history of SCD to the present. | Wellcome Collection
- Exploring the Sickle Cell Society Archive,Wellcome Collection, 2023 (YouTube) Exploring the Sickle Cell Society archive (youtube.com)
Research Grant: Invisibility of Black bodies in Morocco