Artist’s Rooms: Lawrence Abu Hamdan

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Artist’s Rooms: Lawrence Abu Hamdan

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This bilingual publication features a text by Skye Arundhati Thomas*, exploring Abu Hamdan’s practice and ways in which the artist tackled issues around borders, surveillance and displacement.

Drawn largely from the Art Jameel Collection, Artist’s Rooms is a series of solo exhibitions by influential, innovative artists, with particular focus on practitioners from the Middle East, Asia and Africa. These capsule shows are collaborative and curated in dialogue with the artist.

*The essay by Skye Arundhati Thomas was first published in the exhibition catalogue Lawrence Abu Hamdan: The Voice Before The Law, ed. Ina Dinter (Cologne: Wienand Verlag, 2019), 24-28. ‘The Voice Before the Law’ was presented at Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof—Museum für Gegenwart—Berlin from October 26, 2019, to February 9, 2020.

Languages: Arabic and English

Colour illustrations

Softcover

ISBN: 9789948344605

Publisher: Art Jameel

Published in 2020

Country of publication: United Arab Emirates

Designed by Kemistry Design, a creative studio based in Dubai

This item is eligible for international shipping.

Lawrence Abu Hamdan is a ‘Private Ear.' His interest with sound and its intersection with politics originate from his background as a touring musician and facilitator of DIY music. The artist’s audio investigations have been used as evidence at the UK Asylum and Immigration Tribunal and as advocacy for organisations such as Amnesty International and Defence for Children International together with fellow researchers from Forensic Architecture.

Skye Arundhati Thomas is a writer based in Goa, India. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, the London Review of Books, Frieze, and ArtReview, among other places. She is an editor of The White Review.

Lawrence Abu Hamdan is a ‘Private Ear.' His interest with sound and its intersection with politics originate from his background as a touring musician and facilitator of DIY music. The artist’s audio investigations have been used as evidence at the UK Asylum and Immigration Tribunal and as advocacy for organisations such as Amnesty International and Defence for Children International together with fellow researchers from Forensic Architecture.

Skye Arundhati Thomas is a writer based in Goa, India. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, the London Review of Books, Frieze, and ArtReview, among other places. She is an editor of The White Review.

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