Image Credit: (L) Ilyes Messaoudi (C) Scherezade Garcia (R) Helen Zughaib
WATER/ ماء : Trespassing Liquid Highways
The exhibition employs Édouard Glissant’s Archipelag thought as an analytical framework to investigate the intimate relationality of the Mediterranean and Caribbean seas as water borders, liquid highways, and historical sites of violence. Through painting, collage, sculpture, video, and performance, the artists examine movements within/ inside/under/around the body of/and water from multi-layered perspectives—questioning colonialist and orientalist notions of paradise and uncovering forgotten transnational entanglements.
Curated by: Ikram Lakhdhar (Arts Politics '18)
Exhibiting Artists: Scherezade Garcia, Helen Zughaib, Ellington Robinson, Ilyes Messaoudi, Sama Alshaibi, Rex Delafkaran, Ani Bradberry.
Sept. 10 - Oct. 12
Opening Reception & Artist Performance:
Monday, September 10, 2018 at 6 pm
Closing Reception & Poetry Night: Friday, October 12, 2018 at 6 pm
Gallery 102
801 22nd Street NW | Smith Hall of Art | Washington, DC 20052