Anahi Alviso-Marino

Anahi Alviso-Marino is a political scientist teaching at the Urban School of SciencesPo and a
research fellow (ingénieure d’études) and co-coordinator at the collective “Penser l’urbain par
l’image,” Ecole des Ponts ParisTech.

She conducts research on the sociological lives of objects made by visual artists from cities of
the Arabian Peninsula, focusing more recently on the biographic trajectories of public
monumental artworks in Kuwait, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia and previously, on proposing a
political sociology of visual arts in Yemen. Through research-creation, she combines political
sociology and a methodological approach that intersects social sciences and artistic practices
using creative protocols and games.
Besides publishing her work (Participations, Arabian Humanities, Les cahiers d’Études sur le
Monde Arabe et la Méditerranée, Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée
(REMMM), Géographie et cultures), she has exhibited her research and archival materials in
Paris (Palais de Tokyo, Villa Vassilieff and Bétonsalon) and Spain (Casa Arabe). Her
forthcoming book focuses on art and politics in Yemen, and she is presently working on a
research-creation project dedicated to mapping monument biographies across the Arabian
Peninsula supported by two collaborative grants from the EUR ArTeC (2021) and the Graham
Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts (2021/2022), and by two individual
research residencies at Alserkal Arts Foundation (2022) and at the Henry Moore Foundation
(2023). With this project, she is working towards a film that uses games and protocols to
decentre knowledge production, disciplinary hierarchies, and approaches to archival and
research materials.