Sharif Waked

Born:
1964
Residence:
Haifa, Israel
Nationality:
Israeli, Palestinian
Trust:
APT London
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  • Fire and Forget is military jargon for a type of missile guidance that can hit its target without the launcher being in line-of-sight.

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  • You should make a point of heading to DiverseWorks by Saturday to catch The New Normal, for reasons both straightforward and perverse. The traveling

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  • The Guggenheim’s current survey of film and video-based installation art, Found in Translation, features a series of darkened rooms off the main rotunda.

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  • You should make a point of heading to DiverseWorks by Saturday to catch The New Normal, for reasons both straightforward and perverse. The traveling

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  • The Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim: Found in Translation brings together eleven works by eleven artists that look to translation

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  • Subversion brings together eleven emerging and internationally recognised artists in a unique group show of new and recent contemporary art

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  • The Elaine Terner Cooper Education Fund: Conversations with Contemporary Artists Please join us for this special series of artist talks

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  • The Voyager 1 has been journeying through space since 1977. On board, among other things, is the Golden Record. It carries data including 116 photographs

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  • As fashion designers grow ever more self-important and artists continue to desert clay and easel in favour of 'craftier’ media,

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BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1964 in Nazareth, Israel, Sharif Waked lives and works in Haifa. With ferocious humor, Waked engages with the Middle-Eastern political conflict, turning terror into a somber cabaret. “Chic Point” (2003) is a seven-minute video that imagines "fashion for Israeli checkpoints”. Young men parade down the catwalk, gradually revealing their toned midriffs. The piece evokes military checkpoints where people have to show their stomach to soldiers to insure that they are not wearing an explosives belt. In “Jericho First”, Waked connects the first stage of the Oslo Agreement – Jericho First – with the violence of a hunting scene. An image of a lion attacking a deer found in a mosaic floor at Hisham Palace in Jericho is transformed using a mathematical function fed into a graphic design software.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Wolverhampton Art Gallery, United Kingdom (2014); Galeria Wschodnia, Lodz, Poland (2014); and Gallery One, Ramallah, Palestine (2015). His work has also been featured in a number of group exhibitions, including the Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates: Provisions for the Future: Past of the Coming Days (2009); The Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim: Found in Translation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2011); Navigations: Palestinian Video Art, 1988–2011, Barbican, London (2012); Terms and Conditions, Singapore Art Museum (2013); Arab Contemporary: Architecture, Culture and Identity, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (2014); Kubri al Hamir, Kallio Kunsthalle, Helsinki (2014); Arab Cultural Association Center, Haifa, Qalandiya International: Manam (2014); and Fire and Forget, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2015). 


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