Of Myth and Monument. Artist talk

 

31 May 2024

Badoer, aula T2

h 10.30 a.m.

 

lecture by Shadi Harouni

 

as part of the open encounters of the MOVIES – Moving Images Arts postgraduate specialisation programme curated by Lorenzo Lazzari

 

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Shadi Harouni’s lecture will consider the metaphysics of hope alive in contested bodies, forbidden tongues and forgotten histories. Her presentation looks at mountains and monuments, home and homeland as sites of remembrance and resistance, despair and possibility.

 

Shadi Harouni is a visual artist, born in Iran and based in New York City. She is an educator, Professor and Head of Video and Photography in the Department of Art at New York University. Harouni’s practice weaves together modes and media—film and photography, sculpture and site-specific interventions with text and folklore. Her research and material investigations are rooted in disavowed histories of erasure and resistance that span from everyday acts of dissent to global mass movements, from modern revolutions in the Middle East to ancient transgressions in thought and poetry. Harouni’s films and photographs set in time-worn dwellings, factories, and mountain quarries throughout her ancestral Kurdistan are intimate studies of home and homeland and of myth and monument in the region. Harouni’s projects have been exhibited worldwide at institutions including the Queens Museum (New York), Kunstmuseum Bonn (Germany), Prague City Museum (Czech Republic), Museo d’Arte Orientale (Torino). She has been awarded prizes and fellowships from the Gattuso Foundation, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, where she also served as Director in 2019. Harouni is a 2024-25 Guggenheim Fellow in Film-Video. Shadi Harouni’s work is currently on view at Galleria Tiziana Di Caro in Napoli and as part of “Tradu/izioni d'Eurasia” at the MAO in Torino, where she will be speaking on June 4th.