Coordinator of Axe 3: the study of praxis
Nuria Garcia Masip is a professional calligrapher and doctoral candidate in Art History, with a fellowship from Observatoire des Patrimoines at Sorbonne University (OPUS). She pursued her calligraphic studies in the Ottoman school of calligraphy and holds a higher diploma (ijazah) in the thuluth and naskh scripts. Her Master’s thesis explored the origins of calligraphic panels (levha) in the Ottoman world. She is currently focusing her doctoral research on levha in Sufi lodges from the 17th to the 19th centuries, analyzing the role of text as image, and contextualizing the various genres of figurative and non-figurative
calligraphic panels.
Drawing on her experience as a practicing professional calligrapher, she’s coordinating the axis on Praxis at the Callfront project, concentrating on recreative practices for Arabic script calligraphies.