Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s exhibition AIR PRESSURE (A DIARY OF THE SKY), curated by Irene Calderoni and Amanda Sroka, opens tomorrow at Fondazione Sandretto! Air Pressure (A Diary of the Sky) is an audio and video installation that further develops Abu Hamdan’s research into the political dimension of sound. Through extended and rigorous investigations that gather and analyze […]
We are pleased to announce our participation in this year’s Artissima Fair opening on November 4th. For Artissima 2022, mor charpentier wants to develop a second chapter on the theme of the human landscape, not as a term to describe man-made structures and practices of reshaping the land, but as research on the traces of the […]
Discover Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s videos Rubber Coated Steel and Walled Unwalled, being presented at the Athens Museum of Contemporary Art as part of the Lawrence Abu Hamdan. Sonic Detective exhibition. These two works explore contested borders, citizenship and freedom of movement. Set in a facility designed with one specific function – to fire ammunition and […]
We are pleased to announce that Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Cevdet Erek will be participating in Manifesta 14 titled It matters what world wordls world: how to sell stories otherwise. This year’s edition explores the variations of storytelling and the spaces created from it with different projects, events, performances, and architectural interventions. Abu Hamdan will […]
Nos complace anunciar que Lawrence Abu Hamdan ha sido galardonado con el primer Audience Prize de la Bienal de Toronto, por su proyecto 45th Parallel en Mercer Union. El audience Prize otorga $10.000 y reconoce una contribución artística sobresaliente a la bienal. También es la primera vez que la Bienal de Arte de Toronto invita […]
Nos complace anunciar que Kader Attia será el curador de la 12ª Bienal de Berlín, que tendrá lugar del 11 de junio al 18 de septiembre de 2022. La propuesta del artista está relacionada con el pensamiento decolonial como una conversación continua que permite la reparación en diferentes esferas de la sociedad. A Attia le […]
Descubra la primera gran monografía de Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Dirty Evidence, publicada por Lenz Press en colaboración con Bonniers Konsthall. La publicación presenta un amplio panorama de la práctica del artista en los últimos 10 años. The book presents an in-depth visual analysis of Abu Hamdan’s work accompanied by commissioned essays that focus on single […]
Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s exhibition The Witness-Machine Complex at the Kunstverein Nuremberg has been extended until December 19th. In the show, Hamdan examines the role of the simultaneous translators at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945, who allowed the International Military Tribunal to take place in Russian, French, German. Abu Hamdan’s installation at the Kunstverein Nürnberg invokes […]
In his new exhibition The Witness-Machine Complex Lawrence Abu Hamdan examines the role of the simultaneous translators and the then-novel electronic acoustic infrastructure deployed to enable their work at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945/6. The Witness-Machine Complex opens on September 16th, 2021.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan will be presenting a new version of his audiovisual installation ????? ??? at the 34th Biennial of São Paulo. This work uses the sounds and stories from Abu Hamdan’s self-constructed sound effects library. The accoustic inventory, presented as an animated text projected on a sceen, is sourced from earwitness interviews the artist conducted, as well as from trial transcripts across the globe. A […]
¿Cuáles testimonios son oidos por nuestras entidades legales? ¿Cuáles voces son ignoradas? ¿Son todos los testimonios son creados de la misma manera? La nueva exposición de Lawrence Abu Hamdan ????? ???????? cuestiona las maneras en que el testimonio es presentado, así como quién puede hablar en ciertos espacios y qué condiciones establecen la posibilidad de […]
En la ocasión de ARCO 2021, mor charpentier presenta un proyecto que involucra multiples voces, organizadas alrededor de dos temas principales. El primero de estos tiene que ver con el archivo y el testimonio: trabajos en los que el artista se muestra como investigador, coleccionista y testimonio de la realidad, en la obras de Lawrence […]