Maha Shahin (Dubai), Braids, a video about child marriage, 2012
- Thursday, June 16, 2016
- 12:00pm – 1:00pm
- MAWA, 611 Main Street
Currently in exile in Sweden with her infant daughter, and separated by war and distance from her husband, Boukhari continues to created platforms for art and artists through her curatorial work. Boukhari will discuss her current global “Nomadism”, exploring the effects of displacement on individuals and cultures, as well as the many exhibitions she has curated through Europe and the Middle East.
Free! All are welcome!
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Abir Boukhari is the director and co-founder of AllArtNow, the first contemporary art centre in Syria, founded in Damascus in 2005. AllArtNow helps emerging Syrian contemporary artists to produce and diffuse their artworks. It is devoted to contemporaneity and experimentality (controversial ideas in Syria). Previously, Boukhari was the Artistic Director for Living Spaces Festival for Contemporary Arts, the Artistic Director of Studio (an informal school for contemporary arts in Syria) and the co-founder of Boukhari House for Artist Residencies and Maktab Creative Zone, all of which were located in Damascus. She has worked as an independent curator since 2006, creating exhibitions for institutions and galleries as varied as Taksim Gallery (Istanbul), the Arab Short Festival (Cairo), Les Instants Festival (Marseille) and Gotham Arts Studios (Western Australia). She augmented her training through internships at the Tate Modern (London) and the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum (Germany). She is also the sister of Nisrine Boukhari, who was an artist in residence at MAWA in 2014.