Category: Installations
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Mariam Ghani is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her work operates at the intersections of language, loss, migration, memory, and history. Her films, public projects, photographs, and installations have been presented and collected worldwide, notably in Times Square and the new Terminal C at LaGuardia Airport; the Guggenheim, New Museum, MoMA, Smithsonian, and Metropolitan Museums;…
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Yasmine Nasser Diaz is a visual artist whose work frequently occupies the domestic sphere to explore the boundaries of cultural identity. Staging familial memories in nostalgic recreations of home, her work nods to both tradition and technological change and is often deftly punctured by powerful feminist and social critique. Using a variety of media from…
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Sonia Kacem (*1985) lives and works in Geneva, where she earned a master’s degree from the Haute école d’art et de design (HEAD) in 2011. She has won numerous prizes and scholarships, including the Leenard’s Cultural Grant (2023), the Zurich Art Prize (2022), the Kiefer Hablitzel Prize (2015), the Manor Art Prize (2014), and the…
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Tewa Barnosa (b.1998) is a Trans-disciplinary artist and curator, based between troubled Tripoli and a-political Amsterdam, her artistic practice spans across trajectories of visual arts, literature, sound and curatorial collaborations, Grounded in critical curiosity- and intuitive based knowledge reinterpretation and re-production(s), She constructs surreal scenography that navigates the intricacies of contradiction, extremity, and the evasive…
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Alla Abdunabi (b. 2001, Freiburg) delves into the potential existence where all matter, organic or inorganic, possesses a soul realised through sculpture and installation. Central to her artistic methodology is the utilization or production of fragments, assembled to construct a sense of wholeness, whether rooted in factual events or products of the imagination. Her practice…
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Diana Habashneh is a versatile visual artist whose journey spans multiple disciplines. Transitioning from advertising and graphic design to the tech sector, Diana eventually pursued her passion for fine art, culminating in the completion of her MFA degree. This diverse background has equipped her with both technical expertise and theoretical understanding, enabling her to convey…
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Wafa Al Qunibit, an artist and trainer, earned her master’s degree from Savannah University in 2016, specializing in General Art from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), along with an Online Master of Business Administration from Columbus University. With over seven years of experience in various art forms such as carving, engraving, printing…
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Nesrine Salem is interested in the hypervisibilization of diasporic beings. She uses post-digital image-capture methods such as 360° cameras to gather filmic material that she calls “reported videos”. Through her video work and the installation of her films, she highlights a common elsewhere, its strangeness as well as its familiarity, by connecting seemingly unrelated spaces.…
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Rawan Abbas (b.1996) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Cairo, Egypt. She has participated in many shows where she exhibited textiles, sculpture, installation art, and video. Notably, she participated in the Dak’art Biennial in 2022, London’s 1-54 Art Fair with Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art in 2021, and had two solo exhibitions in Hamburg, Germany…
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Born in 1992 in Bizerte, Asma Ben Aissa lives and works in Tunis. In her work, Asma is fundamentally interested in the landscape as an aesthetic concept, where experimentation serves her art. Her work explores themes of habitat, transmission, architecture, interior and exterior spaces, social transformations, and local heritage, echoing the relationship between environmental construction…
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Rima Rezaiguia simultaneously pursues her career as an architect, managing an engineering firm, and her work as a visual artist. Born in Annaba in 1985, Rima Rezaiguia joined the Higher School of Plastic Arts in Nord-Pas de Calais and graduated with a DNAP in 2016. She participated in several exhibitions in Annaba and Algiers. “This…
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Nasrin Abu Baker is a multifaceted artist who works with various media, such as installations, paintings, and video art. Her artistic expression is influenced by her use of diverse materials, such as ready-made objects, industrial materials, textiles, tar, threads, wood, photographs, lighting, and more. Her works invite the viewers to enter a unique world that…
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Joyce Dallal is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Her work encompasses a variety of media from small prints and paintings to large installations and public art. The themes that surface in her work are those of collective and personal history, migration, memory, and the evolution of contemporary cultural identity. A first-generation American born…
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Born and based in Tunis (1986), Yasmine Ben Khelil studied at the university Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris, France. Yesmine’s approach consists mainly of re-appropriating or reinterpreting all kinds of images, objects or texts through various means (drawings, collages, installations, paintings, videos) to portray a world saturated with representations, transformed into a flow of information where past…
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(1940 – 2022) Laila Shawa was born on 4 April 1940 in Gaza, Mandatory Palestine, eight years prior to the 1948 Nakba and the founding of the State of Israel. Shawa was well educated; she attended boarding school at the Leonardo da Vinci Art Institute in Cairo from 1957 to 1958, then went to the…