Félicitations à Lawrence Abu Hamdan pour avoir été sélectionné dans la liste des artistes de la Biennale de São Paulo pour sa trente-quatrième édition. Intitulée 𝘍𝘢𝘻 𝘌𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘴 𝘦𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘰 (Malgré l’obscurité je continue de chanter) et organisée par Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, la biennale tire son nom d’un poème de 1965 de l’Amazonien Thiago de […]
Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la réouverture de la galerie ce mercredi 19 mai 2021. Venez découvrir Resisting Bodies, une exposition collective qui explore l’idée du corps comme réceptacle de la mémoire et des traumatismes, ainsi que comme moyen d’expression. Les œuvres de Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Saâdane Afif, Kader Attia et Teresa Margolles, […]
Des représentations spirituelles des écritures bouddhistes de Charwei Tsai à l’exploration des photos d’identité de prisonniers par Rosângela Rennó, notre prochain stand à Frieze New York explorera la pratique de l’autoportrait et de l’identité. Notre viewing room présentera des oeuvres de Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Carlos Motta, Oscar Muñoz, Liliana Porter, Rosângela Rennó, Charwei Tsai and […]
“Green Coconuts and Other Inadmissible Evidence” exposition personnelle de Lawrence Abu Hamdan a rouvert ses portes le 9 février jusqu’au 14 mars 2021. Dans son exposition à Secession, l’artiste présente quatre œuvres de deux séries qui sondent des questions en quête de vérité dans le contexte des crises juridiques et humanitaires actuelles : After SFX […]
In both his art and his audio investigations, Lawrence Abu Hamdan grapples with sound, speech, memory, and the quest for truth in the context of today’s legal and humanitarian crises. A central concern that is woven through many of his works, including sound and video installations, objects, and research-based documentaries, is his engagement with questions […]
Centring around three key works by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Marguerite Humeau, and Jesse Darling, the exhibition expands the spectrum of poem into language, sound, speech, ephemerality, and extinction. Understanding poem from its Greek derivative ‘poiesis’ (making) allows us to view the use of language from afar: the artworks in this exhibition explore a wide range […]
Renaissance TV is an experiment, an additional exhibition space, and a tentative exploration of the potential for the internet to be a generative platform divorced from vertical hierarchies and classical institutional agendas. Conceptualized by Myriam Ben Salah with Karsten Lund and Michael Harrison, and inspired by the lo-fi aesthetic and assorted programming of television broadcasting, […]
With the start of the war on terror and the proliferation of militarized technologies, many artists developed new aesthetic approaches to explore military sites and industries. Overt: Militarization as Ideology focuses on the ways in which artists have engaged aesthetically with the concept and condition of militarization. Through video, film, drawings, and installation, the exhibition highlights the […]
Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s installation tells of a not-too-distant future in which everyday objects and surfaces can be used to watch over the population. Not only the walls have ears. Even the packaging in the supermarket might be listening to you as you shop. Find out what that might sound like at the Spar branches at […]
The Core Residency Program presents Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s livestreamed web lecture at mfah.org/core
The group exhibition Readings From Below explores how artists engage us in new readings of our complex present by making use of the virtual potentials of archives. While the traditional institution of the archive with its sense of permanence and timeless solidity, its physical location and architecture continues to exist, in today’s world of digitized information, archives […]
My only weapon is listening. Listening, in which the power of silence meets the potential of attention to the audible layers. Listening, which is able to reveal what extends beyond the visible layers and to perceive sounds and voices that are masked, hardly accessible or silenced. The leaking noise of suppressed gunshots and beatings, the […]