Nations by Artists explores how artists have engaged the trappings of the nation-state as a material for protest, parody, or collective utopian wish, dreaming counter-realities that exceed and resist prevalent paradigms of nationalism. The title builds from the historical precedent of Art Metropole’s landmark publishing series that explored the potentialities of artist-led culture. The exhibition looks at critical interventions in the performance of nation/nationalism, and artists’ capacities to complicate and make fissures through standing notions of territory, belonging, authenticity, citizenship, and borders. The works included offer possibilities to disrupt colonial power structures, exhume suppressed histories, and create new political scripts. Timely subjects explored in the exhibition include contestations of public monuments, counter-archival research into suppressed historical memory, the assertion of otherwise marginalized knowledge nodes and histories of resistance. Other works place into sharp focus mechanisms of state suppression, bringing into visibility forms of erasure that are structurally persistent to upholding state power. Numerous works also address histories of dispossession and make claims for the return of land and the centering of Indigenous knowledge and cultural survivance. Together, the works assembled in this exhibition point to possible political futures as imagined by artists, offering rich provocations to challenge existing paradigms of nationhood.
Curated by Mikinaak Migwans & Sarah Robayo Sheridan
FEMINAE means Women in Latin and it is the title of the exhibition, organized by Eiwan Al Gassar Gallery - St. Regis Doha.
Made by women for women, the exhibition was held from the 8th until the 22nd of March 2022. The exhibition’s purpose is to highlight female art and to unite women through art. FEMINAE is an open door between cultures; twenty Arab countries are represented through twenty Arab female artists.
Digital Fanoos exhibition, an MFA On The Go project, held at Katara Art Center, October 10th-October 31st, Fall 2019. The digital glass lamps were designed and made by MFA students and faculty, and re-examined the traditional Arabic lantern (Fanoos). The bases were 3D printed, the glass molds were 3D printed and cast in the US, and the glass light fittings were created during a field trip to the Glass Hub, Bath, UK, Fall 2018.
Cohen, Raviv (Photographer)
The opening of the annual BFA MFA exhibition at VCUarts Qatar Gallery. The exhibition opened on May 4th and ran until 18th May, Spring 2019.
Cohen, Raviv (Photographer)
