Beirutopia
ARCHIVE KABINETT, Berlin, Berlin, 08/11/2014
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As part of her ongoing research and residency at Archive, Caitlin Berrigan invites Randa Mirza to discuss her photographic series, Beirutopia. The two artists share a commitment to creating work around questions of art and feminism within public space, geopolitics, fictions, and speculative futures. Since the end of the Lebanese civil war in 1990, Beirut has been striving to regain its glamor and splendor, with the goal of reconstructing the myth of a city commonly referred to as the Paris of the Middle East. Beirutopia is a portrait of Beirut’s urban future through speculated representations. It aims to raise questions about the devenir (becoming) of Beirut, and the projected future of the city.
Randa Mirza is an artist who seeks to transgress the normalization of social practices and to subvert the status quo. In the Lebanese context of a society under re(construction), her practice tends to give a voice to what is not represented. Her work is not centered on nostalgia but instead urges us to a bewildered state, and identifies the invisible places that conceal fictions.
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As part of her ongoing research and residency at Archive, Caitlin Berrigan invites Randa Mirza to discuss her photographic series, Beirutopia. The two artists share a commitment to creating work around questions of art and feminism within public space, geopolitics, fictions, and speculative futures. Since the end of the Lebanese civil war in 1990, Beirut has been striving to regain its glamor and splendor, with the goal of reconstructing the myth of a city commonly referred to as the Paris of the Middle East. Beirutopia is a portrait of Beirut’s urban future through speculated representations. It aims to raise questions about the devenir (becoming) of Beirut, and the projected future of the city.
Randa Mirza is an artist who seeks to transgress the normalization of social practices and to subvert the status quo. In the Lebanese context of a society under re(construction), her practice tends to give a voice to what is not represented. Her work is not centered on nostalgia but instead urges us to a bewildered state, and identifies the invisible places that conceal fictions.
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