We are pleased to announce that Marwa Arsanios’ work is part of the Asian Art Biennial, How to Hold your Breath. The Biennial aims to withdraw from the spheres of visibility and systems perpetuating violence, to make space for opacity from which new forms of agency can emerge. It questions the universal notions of time, […]
We are thrilled to present our first double opening at mor charpentier Paris, featuring Malo Chapuy’s debut solo show, Memorabilia and the group exhibition Utopías Arquitectónicas. Utopías Arquitectónicas brings together works by Kader Attia, Teresa Margolles, Malo Chapuy, Alexander Apóstol, Lara Almarcegui, Marwa Arsanios, and Lawrence Abu Hamdan, exploring the complexities of the Modern Movement […]
We are pleased to invite you to the opening of our exhibition L’écriture ou la vie at mor charpentier Paris. The exhibition presents a series of works that are part of continuous research about the fragility and power of the written word. Through the exploration of text, redaction, and the materiality of language, the show […]
We are pleased to announce our participation at this year’s ARCOmadrid fair! This time, our project wants to draw a survey of “immaterial” portraits that tell us about reality, identity, and how we see the world through the eyes of different artists. The proposal is divided into two large blocks: the first is dedicated to […]
Discover Marwa Arsanios exploration of colonial and ecological violence and the alternative possibilities in grassroots community resistance in her latest exhibition Reverse Shot at The Mosaic Rooms London. The exhibition brings together a selection of works by the artist that study visibility and invisibility, space and temporality and the relationship between gender, ecology and colonial […]
Discover Marwa Arsanios’ fourth chapter of her ongoing film series Who is Afraid of Ideology? At documenta fifteen. The film departs from a collaborative project that is attempting to shift the status of a private land in the North of Lebanon to a common or a social waqf. The aim would be to advance the […]
We are pleased to announce that Marwa Arsanios will be participating in the 15th edition of Documenta. Ruangrupa, the appointed curatorial collective of the exhibition, has decided to adopt the concept of lumbung as the starting point for this exhibition. Lumbung, which directly translates as “rice barn”, refers to a communal building in rural Indonesia where a community’s harvest is […]
Marwa Arsanios will be presenting her expansive filmic quadrilogy Who is Afraid of Ideology ? at the CAC Cincinatti. This series of films taims to contrast frameworks of ownership, extraction, and accumulation, with ideas associated with feminism, collectivism, and grassroots revolt. The exhibition opens on September 17th, 2021 and will also host the world premiere of the last chapter of the […]
Discover the film How to Kill a Bear or Becoming Jamila by Marwa Arsanios as part of the exhibition Alger: Archipel des Libertés. The show brings together fifteen artists that reflect African struggles and recount iconic and little-known revolutionary trajectories from the continent. Alger: Archipel des Libertés opens on the 4th of June, 2021 at FRAC Centre Val de Loire.
Marwa Arsanios will present her works Resilient Weeds and Falling is not Collapsing, Falling is Extending in the group exhibition Garden State. The exhibition aims to spotlight wild margins from our super-monitored surroundings and examine the ‘garden methodologies’ of contemporary control systems. Garden State opens on May 1st 2021 at the Garage art center in Rotterdam.
Marwa Arsanios will participate in the group show Reclaiming Places at La Loge in Brussels opening May 1st, 2021. Reclaiming places tells the story of a changing world, and the claims of indigenous people to inhabit the space that surrounds them and that they are made of. The works presented are bound by joint environmental concerns and explore the notions of […]
Discover the works of Marwa Arsanios in the group exhibition Memory of Defence: Physical and Mental Architectures currently on view at the Es Baluard Museum. The goal of this exhibition is to open a debate about the compulsion to erect physical and mental architectural elements in order to justify political actions that augur protection. The show will be open until the […]