Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige collaborate as filmmakers and artists. They have directed multi awarded documentaries and feature films such A Perfect Day (2005). and Je Veux Voir (I Want to See), starring Catherine Deneuve and Rabih Mroué, (2008). In 2013, they presented their feature documentary The Lebanese Rocket Society, the strange tale of the Lebanese space race and a series of artistic installations around the space project of the 1960s. Then they have focused on spams and scams and the virtuality of internet and lately on poetry facing troubled times.
Their artwork, part of major private and public collection have been extensively shown in solo and group shows in museums, biennials and art centers around the world, such as Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Guggenheim, New York; British Museum, London, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE, Ashkal Alwan (Beirut), Victoria & Albert Museum, London, SF MOMA, Musée d’art Moderne, Paris, Mori Art Museum, KW Berlin, Tate Modern, MOMA (New York) Singapore Art Museum and the Biennale of Sharjah, Kochi-Muziris, Istambul, Gwangjiu and Venice and lately solo shows in HOME (Manchester), MIT List Visual Art Center (Cambridge), Sharjah Art Foundation, (AUE), Jeu de Paume (Paris), IVAM (Spain) and Haus der Kunst (Munich)
The artists Etel Adnan and Joana Hadjithomas met at the end of the 1990s. They quickly grew close, bound by links to a city they had never been to: Smyrna (today’s Izmir). Joana’s paternal Greek family were forced into exile from Smyrna by the Turkish armies after the end of the Ottoman Empire. Etel’s Greek […]
Arnolfini presents The Stars Were Aligned For a Century of New Beginnings, the first UK solo exhibition by Egyptian artist Basim Magdy. Basim Magdy’s work is rooted in dreams, scientific theory and failed utopian ambitions. Full of humour and quiet melancholy, his works on paper and in film, photography and slide projection reflect on the […]
In this exhibition, UK based artist Judy Price presents a unique and complex body of work focused on Palestine. Two multi-screen installations and a photographic piece reflect in very different ways on Palestine’s colonial past and the current lived experience of occupation. This exhibition’s subject is timely; 2017 marks 100 years since the Balfour declaration, the British colonial […]
Sadik Kwaish Alfraji is part of Moving stories: three journeys, a new multimedia exhibition at the British Museum. A selection of drawings from Alfraji’s Ali’s Boat series is featured alongside a projected animation of million-year-old footprints discovered in 2013 and a short film by the late poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant. Before travelling to the British Museum, Alfraji’s […]
A season blending contemporary visual arts, theatre, music, design, films and words from and about Sudan Private View: Thursday 23rd March 2017, 18:00 – 20:00 Exhibition dates: 24th March – 6th May 2017 Curator: Frederique Cifuentes Artists: Hussein Shariffe, Kamala Ibrahim Ishaaq, Mohamed Abdalla Otaybi, Akram Fathi, Frederique Cifuentes, Nuba Reports, African Art Workshop, Mo Abbaro, […]