Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Lawrence Abu Hamdan nació en 1985 en Amman, Jordania
Actualmente, vive y trabaja entre Dubai y Beirut
Lawrence Abu Hamdan es un artista y “oído privado” cuyos proyectos toman forma a través de instalaciones audiovisuales, performances, trabajos gráficos, fotografía, ensayos y charlas. Su interés por la intersección entre el sonido y la política tiene origen en su formación en la música autoproducida.
Las investigaciones acústicas del artista se han utilizado como prueba en el Tribunal de Asilo e Inmigración del Reino Unido, y como defensa de organizaciones como Amnistía Internacional y Defensa de los Niños Internacional junto con colegas investigadores de Arquitectura Forense.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan obtuvo un doctorado de Goldsmiths College University of London en 2017, y completó becas en el Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry en la Universidad de Chicago, y el Vera List Center for Art and Politics en la New School de Nueva York.
Una selección de sus exposiciones individuales incluye Lawrence Abu Hamdan / Dirty Evidence, Bonniers Konsthall (2021); Green Coconuts and Other Inadmissible Evidence, Secession, Vienna (2020); The Voice Before the Law, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlín (2019); Earwitness Theatre, Institute of Modern Art, Birsbane (2019), Contemporary Art Museum, San Louis, US (2019), Witte de With, Rotterdam (2019), Chisenhale Gallery, Londres (2018); Hammer Projects: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Hammer Museum, LA (2018); Earshot, Portikus, Frankfurt (2016); Taqiyya, Kunsthalle St Gallen (2015); Tape Echo, Beirut in Cairo y Van AbbeMuseum, Eindhoven (2013); The Freedom Of Speech Itself, The Showroom, Londres (2012); The Whole Truth, Casco, Utrecht (2012).
Adicionalmente, sus obras han sido expuestas o presentadas en instituciones y eventos internacionales como la Kunsthalle Basel (2021); la Bienal de Sydney 22 (2020); la Bienal de Venecia 58 (2019); Tate Modern, Londres (2018); la Bienal de Sharjah 13 & 14 (2017, 2019); el Centre Pompidou, París (2017); la Bienal Contour 8, Mechelen (2017); el MACBA, Barcelona (2017); el Moderna Museet en Estocolmo (2017); la Bienal de Gwangju 11, Corea (2016); la Bienal de Liverpool 9 (2016); Whitechapel Gallery, Londres (2016); el Beirut Art Center (2015); y la Bienal de Shanghai 10 (2014), entre otros.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan es co-ganador del Turner Prize en 2019. También ha sido galardonando con el 2020 EMAF Award, el Edvard Munch Art Award, en 2019, el Baloise Art Prize 2018 y el Abraaj Art Prize 2018. En el 2017 ganó el premio de cortometraje en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Rotterdam, y en 2016 recibió el Premio Nam June Paik de nuevos medios. Recientemente ha recibido la 2022 Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media otorgada por el Philadelphia Museum of Art y la Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.
45th Parallel - Exhibition view, Mercer Union, 2nd Toronto Biennial of Art, 2022
45th Parallel - Exhibition view, Mercer Union, 2nd Toronto Biennial of Art, 2022
The Sonic Image - Exhibition view, Sharjah Art Foundation, 2022
Air Conditioning, 2022 - Digital print mounted on dibond - Detail
Once Removed, 2019 - Video installation - Exhibition view, Nirin, 22nd Sydney Biennale, 2020
Once Removed, 2019 - Video installation - Exhibition view, Nirin, 22nd Sydney Biennale, 2020
Dirty Evidence - Exhibition view, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, 2021
Shot Twice (with the same bullet), 2021 - Video installation - Exhibition view, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, 2021
For the Otherwise Unaccounted, 2019 - Series of thermographic prints on wooden shelves - Exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2021
Green Coconuts and Other Inadmissible Evidence - Exhibition view, Secession, Vienna, 2020
The Witness-Machine Complex - Exhibition view, Kunstverein Nurnberg, 2021
The Witness-Machine Complex, 2021 - Video installation - Detail
Green Coconuts and Other Inadmissible Evidence - Exhibition view, Secession, Vienna, 2020
Dirty Evidence - Exhibition view, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, 2021
Earwitness Inventory, 2018 - Mixed media installation - Exhibition view, Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2019
Earwitness Theatre - Exhibition view, Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis, 2019
Earwitness Theatre - Exhibition view, Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis, 2019
After SFX, 2019 - Live Performance, The Tanks at Tate Modern, London, 2019
Walled Unwalled, 2018 - Video Installation – Exhibition view, Turner Prize, Margate, 2019
Walled Unwalled, 2018 - Single channel video installation, color, sound
Walled Unwalled, 2018 - Video Installation – Exhibition view, 58th Venice Biennale, 2019
This whole time there were no land mines, 2017 - Video installation – Exhibition view, 58th Venice Biennale, 2019
This whole time there were no land mines, 2017 - Video installation – Exhibition view, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 2019
This whole time there were no land mines, 2017 - 8 channel video installation, color, sound
Saydnaya [the missing 19db], 2017 - Digital print mounted on light box
Saydnaya [the missing 19db], 2017 - Exhibition view, Turner Contemporary, Margate, 2019
Saydnaya [ray traces], 2017 - Digital drawings on overhead projectors
Saydnaya [ray traces], 2017 - Installation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2018
Saydnaya [ray traces], 2017 - Digital drawings on overhead projectors
Disputed Utterance, 2019 - Wall installation - Exhibition view, Hamburger Bahnhof, 2019
Disputed Utterance, 2019 - Wall installation - Diorama detail
Disputed Utterance, 2018 - Drawing with oil and charcoal, digital print
[inaudible], 2018 - Exhibition view, mor charpentier, Paris
The Recovered Manifesto of Wissam [inaudible], 2017 - Mixed media installation - Exhibition view, mor charpentier, Paris, 2018
The Recovered Manifesto of Wissam [inaudible], 2017 - Mixed media installation - Detail
The Recovered Manifesto of Wissam [inaudible], 2017 - Exhibition view, mor charpentier, Paris, 201
The Recovered Manifesto of Wissam [inaudible], 2017 - Mixed media installation - Exhibition view, Art Parcours, Basel, 2019
Amir Shakib Arslan Mosque - Site specific intervention, Moukhtara, Lebanon, 2016
Amir Shakib Arslan Mosque - Site specific intervention, Moukhtara, Lebanon, 2016
Earshot, 2016 - Installation with digital video and prints – Exhibition view, MACBA, Barcelona, 2017
Earshot, 2016 - Installation with digital video and prints – Exhibition view, Portikus, Frankfurt, 2017
Earshot, 2016 - Installation with digital video and prints – Exhibition view, Portikus, Frankfurt, 2017
Earshot, 2016 – Installation with digital video and prints - Installation view, Gwangju Biennial, 2016
Spinneys Supermarket, Achrafieh Beirut, August 2017, 2015 - Digital print
A Convention of Tiny Movements, 2015 – Mixed media installation - Exhibition view, British Art Show, Leeds, 2015
Beneath the Surface, 2015 - 7 wooden panels, sound piece – Exhibition view, FRAC Franche Comté, 2019
Beneath the Surface, 2015 - Wooden panel painted with acoustic paint
Contra Diction: Speech Against Itself, 2015 – Video installation - Exhibition view, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, 2015
Contra Diction: Speech Against Itself, 2015 - Live performance - HKW, Berlin, 2016
Contra Diction :Speech Against Itself, 2015 - Live performance - Corner House, Manchester 2016
Contra Diction: Speech Against Itself, 2015 - Live performance - Corner House, Manchester, 2015
Double Take, 2014 - Video installation - Exhibition view, MAC Val, Paris, 2017
Double Take, 2014 - Video installation - Exhibition view, MuHKA, Antwerp, 2016
A conversation with an Unemployed, 2013 – Installation view, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, 2014
A Conversation with an Unemployed (6), 2013 - Digital print on lightbox
A Conversation with an Unemployed (1), 2013 - Digital print on lightbox
Tape Echo, 2013 - Mixed media installation – Exhibition view, New Museum Triennial, New York, 2013
An Unspeakable Act, 2012 - Digital print
The Freedom of Speech Itself, 2012 - Mixed media installation – Exhibition view, The Showroom, London, 2012
The Freedom of Speech Itself, 2012 - Mixed media installation – Exhibition view, HKW, Berlin, 2012
Conflicted Phonemes, 2012 - Wall installation, vinyl, digital prints – Installation view, Tate Modern, London, 2013
Marches, 2008 - Relics of a performance, pair of shoes and digital prints