Hajra Waheed
Hajra Waheed est née en 1980 à Calgary
Elle vit et travaille à Montréal
La pratique multidisciplinaire d’Hajra Waheed s’étend de la peinture et du dessin à la vidéo, à la sculpture et aux installations multimedia. Elle explore, entre autres, les connexions entre sécurité, surveillance et les réseaux de pouvoir souvent dissimulés qui régissent nos vies. Son travail s’intéresse également aux traumatismes et à l’aliénation vécus à travers l’héritage des violences coloniales et étatiques. Caractérisées par un vocabulaire visuel et une approche poétique singulière, les oeuvres de l’artiste convoquent souvent le l’ordinaire pour aborder des sujets essentiels et utilisent le paysage comme métaphore de la lutte humaine soutenant une vision radicale de résistance et de résilience.
Les œuvres de Waheed ont fait l’objet d’expositions individuelles à Hum, Portikus, Francfort (2020); Hold Everything Dear, The Power Plant, Toronto (2019); Hajra Waheed : The Video Installation Project, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2017); The Cyphers, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (2016) ; Still Against the Sky, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2015) ; Asylum in The Sea, Fonderie Darling, Montréal.
Elle a participé à des expositions internationales, notamment : Globale Resistance, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2020); Lahore Biennial 02, Pakistan (2020); Pushing Paper: Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to Now, British Museum, Londres (2019); VIVA ARTE VIVA, 57th Venice Biennale (2017); 11th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2016); La Biennale de Montréal, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Quebec (2014); Lines of Control, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY (2012) et (In) The First Circle, Antoni Tapies Foundation, Barcelona (2012).
Elle a été finaliste pour le prix Sobey Art Award 2016 et a reçu le prix Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton en 2014. En 2022, la Fondation Hnatyshyn lui a décerné le prix Outstanding Achievement Award.
Les œuvres de Waheed figurent dans des collections permanentes telles que le MOMA (New York), le British Museum (Londres), la Galerie nationale du Canada (Ottawa), le Centre Pompidou (Paris), l’Art Institute of Chicago, la Burger Collection (Zurich/Hong Kong) et la Devi Art Foundation (New Delhi).
Hum II (2023), Multichannel Sound Installation – Installation view Sharjah Biennial 15, © Courtesy of the Artist
Hum II (2023), Multichannel Sound Installation – Installation view Sharjah Biennial 15, © Courtesy of the Artist
Hum II (2023), Multichannel Sound Installation – Installation view Sharjah Biennial 15, © Courtesy of the Artist
Hum II (2023), Multichannel Sound Installation – Installation view Sharjah Biennial 15, © Courtesy of the Artist
Hum, 2020 - Multi-channel sound installation - Installation view, Portikus, Frankfurt, 2020 © Diana Pfammatter
Hum, 2020 - Multi-channel sound installation - Installation view, Portikus, Frankfurt, 2020 © Diana Pfammatter
Hum, 2020 - Multi-channel sound installation - Installation view, Lahore Biennale, 2020
Hold Everything Dear, 2019 - Exhibition View at Power Plant, Toronto, © photo Toni Hafkenschied
Walls, Ladders and Roads, 2019 - Installation of Glazed Porcelain Sculptures - Detail
Walls, Ladders and Roads, 2019 - Installation of Glazed Porcelain Sculptures - Detail
Walls, Ladders and Roads, 2019 - Installation of Glazed Porcelain Sculptures - Detail
Hold Everything Dear, 2019 - Exhibition View at Power Plant, Toronto, © photo Toni Hafkenschied
How long does it take moonlight to reach us ? Just over one second. And Sunlight ? Eight minutes., 2019 - Sunned paper
Hold Everything Dear, 2019 - Exhibition View at Power Plant, Toronto, © photo Toni Hafkenschied
Studies for a Starry Night, 1-94, 2019 - Glazed Porcelain and Stoneware
Tidal Turn 1-2, 2019 - Glazed Stoneware
Hold Everything Dear, 2019 - Exhibition View at Power Plant, Toronto, © photo Toni Hafkenschied
Landscape 1-9, 2019 - Oil on Tin
Landscape 1-9, 2019 - Oil on Tin - Detail
Untitled, 2019 - Etching and cut Photograph on Japanese paper
Untitled 1-18, 2019 - Series of 18 works on paper - Cut photograph, letraset on paper - Detail
Untitled 1-18, 2019 - Series of 18 works on paper - Cut photograph, letraset on paper - Detail
Letters 1-8, 2019 - Ink on paper
Letters 1-8, 2019 - Ink on paper - Detail 6/8
The Spiral, 2019 - HD Video - Installation View, The Power Plant, Toronto, 2019
Our Naufrage, 1-10, 2014 - Installation View, 57th Venice Biennale, 2017, © Francesco Galli
Our Naufrage, 1-10, 2014 - Gouache on Massonite mounted in Brass & Wood - Detail
A Short Film 1-321, 2014 - Installation View, 57th Venice Biennale, 2017 © Francesco Galli
A Short Film 1-321, 2014 - Installation View, 57th Venice Biennale, 2017 © Francesco Galli
A Short Film 1-321, 2014 - Installation Detail from Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, 2014
A Short Film, 2014 - Installation Detail, Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal, 2014
Video Installation Project 1-10, 2011-2013 - Installation View, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, 2017, photo © Paul Litherland
Video Installation Project 1-10: Hut 1, 2011-2013 - Video Still
The ARD : Study for a Portrait 1-28, 2018 - Installation View, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE, 2018, photo © Mohamed Somji
The ARD : Study for a Portrait 1-28, 2018 - Installation View, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE, 2018, photo © Mohamed Somji
The ARD : Study for a Portrait 1-28, 15/28, 2018 - Collage, cut photographs, mylar, archive tape, xylene transfer, ink on graph paper
The ARD : Study for a Portrait 1-28, 1/28, 2018 - Collage, cut photographs, mylar, archival tape, xylene transfer, ink on graph paper
The ARD : Study for a Portrait 1-28, 14/28, 2018 - Collage, cut photographs, mylar, archive tape, xylene transfer, ink on graph paper
Strata 1-24, 2017 & Untitled (Map), 2016 - Installation View, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston, 2020
Sea Change – Chapter 1 : Character 1, In the Rough, 2016 - Installation View, Mosaic Room, London, photo © Vipul Sangoi
Untitled (MAP), 2016 - Infographic print on Vellum - Details
1 470.51 - 1673.86m, 1-4, 2016 - Series of 4 works on paper - Folded Wax Paper and Cut Mylar
The Cyphers 1-18, 2016 - Installation View, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, 2016, photo © Colin Davidson
The Cyphers 1-18, 2016 - Installation View, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, 2016, photo © Colin Davidson
The Cyphers 1-18, 2016 - Detail 13/18 & Found Object photo © Colin Davidson
Study for a falling object, 2016 - Installation View, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, 2016, photo © Colin Davidson
Study for a falling object, 2016 - Installation View, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, 2016, photo © Colin Davidson
Study for a falling object, 2016 - Video HD - Video Still
Still Against the Sky 1-3, 2016 - Etched Transfer Paper - Detail
KH-21, 2014 - Installation View, La Biennale de Montréal, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, 2015, photo ©Sabina Rak
KH-21, 2014 - Sound Sculpture and 32 works on paper - Detail
Plume 1-3, 2019 - Detail 1/3 - Cut photograph and Archival Tape on Graph Paper
Plume 1-3, 2019 - Detail 2/3 - Cut photograph and Archival Tape on Graph Paper
Plume 1-3, 2019 - Detail 3/3 - Cut photograph and Archival Tape on Graph Paper