Alia Farid, At The Time of Ebb, 2019. Production still. A new commission for Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber – Look For Me All Around You, 2019. Courtesy of the artist
Curators Zoe Butt, Omar Kholeif and Claire Tancons, who have collaboratively conceived the SB14 theme, will present three distinct exhibitions that bring together a range of experiences and works—including major new commissions, large-scale public installations, performances and films—to create a series of provocations about how one might renegotiate the shape, form and function of the ‘echo chamber’ of contemporary life. Butt, Kholeif and Tancons will also spearhead three distinct programmatic approaches for March Meeting 2019, with each curator programming one day of talks and performances corresponding to the ideas raised in their respective SB14 platforms.
Alia Farid, At The Time of Ebb, 2019. Production still. A new commission for Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber – Look For Me All Around You, 2019. Courtesy of the artist
On view in buildings and courtyards across the city’s arts and heritage areas as well as SAF’s Al Hamriyah Studios, the east coast city of Kalba and other public spaces across and around the city and emirate of Sharjah, Leaving the Echo Chamber will explore subjects ranging from migration and diaspora to concepts of time and interpreted histories, giving artists the agency to explore stories that echo in a different way and reveal differing means of connecting and sustaining a collective humanity.
Sharjah Biennial 14 (SB14) will be held in March 2019, and the curators are Zoe Butt, Omar Kholeif and Claire Tancons.
Encompassing drawing, spatial installations and film, Alia Farid's work explores the correlations between the shaping of environment and perception.
Farid has received a Visual Arts Production Grant, Arab Fund for Culture and Arts (AFAC), Beirut (2018) and an Art Jameel Commission, Dubai (2018). She has participated in residencies at marra.tein, Beirut (2016); Cité internationale des arts, Paris (2015); Edgware Road Project, Serpentine Gallery Centre for Possible Studies, London (2015); Davidoff Art Initiative, Altos de Chavón, La Romana, Dominican Republic (2015) and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha (2014).
She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico, San Juan (2006); Master of Science in Visual Studies from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, US (2008) and Master in Museum Studies and Critical Theory from Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2012).
Born in 1985 in Kuwait, she currently lives and works between Kuwait and Puerto Rico.
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