High Noon (2). Image Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Imane Farés 2015
High Noon (4). Image Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Imane Farés. 2015
Thursday, March 3, 2016 , 5:30 PM | Center for Creative Photography 108
Lecture: Beyond the Ruins of Civilization
This talk explores the idea of a Post-Palestinian perspective through a selection of Alsharif’s works centered around questions about how we can move forward when civilization begins to fail us. Presented as an autobiographical lecture that contextualizes her practice and includes a selection of works, we move from the specificity of the Israeli-Palestine to exploring the human condition in it’s subjective relationship to political landscapes.
Bio: Basma Alsharif is an Artist/Filmmaker born in Kuwait of Palestinian origin. Since receiving a Master of Fine Arts in 2007 from the University of Illinois at Chicago, she developed her practice nomadically between Cairo, Beirut, Sharjah, Amman, and the Gaza Strip. Her works have shown in solo exhibitions, biennials, and film festivals internationally including the Palais de Tokyo, New Museum, the Jerusalem Show, TIFF, the Berlinale, the Sharjah Biennial, Videobrasil, and Manifesta 8. Basma is represented by Galerie Imane Farés in Paris and distributed by Video Data Bank and is currently based in Los Angeles.
