Hajra Waheed
dal 9/10/2015 al 21/11/2015
Segnalato da
9/10/2015
Hajra Waheed
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Still against the sky. Bringing together works made between 2010 and 2015, Waheed navigates across personal and public histories via reconnaissance satellites, a scrapbook, drone studies, and the inner life of Saudi Aramco, as it services the world's hydrocarbon desire.
Curated by Natasha Ginwala
Through the optics of violence – to what extent does digital technology realistically convey the textures of a planet, a star, a cosmos, or a gated community? For Waheed this is likely the irresolvable distance between accuracy, truth, and affective experience. Bringing together works made between 2010 and 2015, Waheed navigates in STILL AGAINST THE SKY across personal and public histories via reconnaissance satellites, a scrapbook, drone studies, and the inner life of Saudi Aramco, as it services the world’s hydrocarbon desire.
The works in STILL AGAINST THE SKY are earth-bound, while intimately considering cosmic proportions. Using a range of techniques where found materials from the realm of space research, surveillance documents and unidentified memoirs are re-arranged to signify an altered temporal space and a narrative continuity determined by the artist as storyteller.
Hajra Waheed (born 1980 in Calgary, CA) has participated in exhibitions worldwide, including: COLLAGES: GESTURES & FRAGMENTS, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, CA (2014); THE MISSING OR: ONE THING NEXT TO ANOTHER, Kunstsaele Berlin (2014); SEA CHANGE, Experimenter, Kolkata, IN (2013); FIELD NOTES & OTHER BACKSTORIES, Art Gallery of Windsor, CA (2013); (IN) THE FIRST CIRCLE, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, ES (2012); THE SCRAPBOOK PROJECT, Green Cardamom, London (2012); LINES OF CONTROL, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, New York, US (2012) as well as HOW NATIONS ARE MADE, Bradford Museums, Ilkley, UK (2009), among others. In addition, she was the recipient of the 2014 Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for Outstanding Achievement as a Canadian Mid-Career Visual Artist and represented Québec in the Biennale de Montreal (2014). Waheed lives and works in Montréal, CA.
Natasha Ginwala, curator of the show, will give an introduction to the exhibition on Monday, October 12, 2015, at 6.15 pm, followed by a conversation with Hajra Waheed and a visual presentation accompanying the exhibition at 7 pm.
Special thanks to Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi and Sammlung Bergmeier. Kindly supported by the Embassy of Canada.
Image: THE WAVE, 9.20 min., from VIDEO INSTALLATION PROJECT, 2011–2013, courtesy Hajra Waheed
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The exhibition opening takes place on Saturday, October 10, 2015, from 5 to 7 pm.
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststraße 69 10117 Berlin
Hours:
Wed–Mon 12–19 h
Thu 12–21 h
Tue closed
Admission:
6 €, reduced: 4 €
Thu 19–21 h: 4 €