Our latest Lobby Gallery exhibition\, On History\, Memory\, and Justice\, examines the art of bearing witness and the narrative assemblages of memor y in reflection of the current war in Yemen and past colonial and imperial histories. Bringing together a complex constellation of visual and textual elements\, it explores the violence of processes of nation-state formation and the difficulty of grappling with an increasingly fractured homeland fro m so far away.
In attempting to navigate that reality\, this exhibit poses more questions than answers: how can art bear witness\, testify\, and address past and current violence? What impact does this testimony have on one's sense of self and place? What does it mean to exhume a living archiv e through visual and textual testimony in art? What role does translation p lay in this process - primarily in the form of Arabic calligraphy? Lastly\, how can art make space for resistance and reinvention in the face of immen se destruction and human-made disaster?
Join Baobeid at the closing o f her Lobby Gallery exhibition where a long table discussion will take plac e\, centring the role of social justice in relationship to memory\, history \, and testimony with the larger community.
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