Join artist Nour Mobarak and writer Negar Azimi for a conversation on the occasion of the exhibition Nour Mobarak: Dafne Phono, and in celebration of the artist’s related publication and recording projects. Mobarak’s practice merges sculpture, sound installation, moving images, and poetry to convey themes of voice and memory. The conversation will address how the artist approaches the human voice as an instrument to reflect on broader cultural and political forces.
Nour Mobarak (Lebanese American, b. Cairo, Egypt) lives and works between Los Angeles, Bainbridge Island, and Athens, Greece. Mobarak’s work seeks to “excavate violence and desire in organic and societal bodies—the compulsions, and glitches in a person or nation state.” Her body—and body of work—acts, in voice, sculpture, sound, performance, writing, and video, as a single hybrid under current geopolitical conditions. Her works have been shown at Sylvia Kouvali, London and Piraeus (2023, 2017), MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (2022), Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2023), and Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2021, 2019). She has performed at Western Front, Vancouver; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Cafe OTO, London; Renaissance Society, Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; and elsewhere. She has exhibitions at Castello di Rivoli, Turin, and at MoMA (2024).
Negar Azimi is a writer and editor-in-chief of the publishing and curatorial project Bidoun. Her essays, criticism, and reporting have appeared in Artforum, Bookforum, Frieze, Harper’s, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and the New York Times, among others. She has recently organized exhibitions about the artists Reza Abdoh (MoMA PS1, KW Institute), Nicolas Moufarrege (CCA Berlin), Fereydoun Ave (Carnegie International), and Van Leo (Hammer Museum). With Pati Hertling, she organizes the epistolary series Deadlines and Divine Distractions.
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