Bouchra Khalili Explained

Bouchra Khalili (born 1975 in Casablanca) is a Moroccan-French visual artist. Raised between Morocco and France, she studied Film at Sorbonne Nouvelle and Fine Arts at École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy.She lives in Berlin, Germany.

Work

Working with film, video, installation, photography, and prints, Khalili's practice articulates language, subjectivity, orality, and geographical explorations. "She often retools the aesthetic strategies of documentary cinema to focus on historical speculation and the representation of subjects rendered invisible by the nation-state".[1] Each of her projects can be seen as a platform offered to members of political minority to elaborate, narrate, and share strategies and discourses of resistance.

Her artwork focuses on personal storytelling that touches harsh politics, developing critical and ethical approaches to question citizenship, community and political agency. She meets her targeted art subjects along her journey across the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe, in sites of transit and accordingly conducts a series of meetings and preliminary conversations as she films them and collects her necessary data.

By including the subjects in her artwork it gives a more sensitive human touch, portraying real life stories and hardships, where then audiences can relate to and stand in solidarity, making the experience more intimate and personal.

In most of her work, the subjects aren't necessarily seen but they aren't voiceless either; they are articulated and decisively heard, speaking in their own tongue language, adding therefore that human touch without evading their privacy and discomfort.

Her work doesn't rely on the vulgar, bloody representation of suffering bodies, charged images, and ambient montages to create an effect, but rather on specific filming techniques and fixed frames in addition to the frame of spoken language itself.

Accordingly, with precision and subtlety, her projects challenge hegemonic narratives about migration and statelessness, as well as the violence they engender and normalize, while also pressing contemporary documentary practice forward, both ethically and aesthetically.

Exhibitions

Khalili's work has been internationally exhibited such as at "The Mapping Journey Project" solo show at MoMA, New York (2016);[2] "Foreign Office", solo show at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015);[3] "Garden Conversation", solo show at MACBA, Barcelona (2015);[4] "Here & Elsewhere", New Museum, New York (2014);[5] "The Opposite of the Voice-Over", solo show at Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto (2013);[6] "The Encyclopedic Palace", 55th Venice Biennale (2013);[7] "Living Labour", solo show at PAMM, Miami (2013);[8] "La Triennale", Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012);[9] 10th Sharjah Biennial (2011);[10] and documenta 14 (2017)[11] among others.

Awards

She was the recipient of " Radcliffe Institute Fellowship", Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University (2017-2018);[12] "Abraaj Group Art Prize", (2014)";[13] "Sam Art Prize 2013-2015", Sam Art Projects, Paris;[14] "DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program" (2012);[15] "Vera List Center for Arts and Politics Fellowship" (The New School, New York, 2011–2013);[16] "Villa Médicis Hors-les Murs" (2010); "Videobrasil Residency Award" (2009);[17] "Image-Mouvement Grant" (French National Centre for the Arts, 2008); "Louis Lumière Documentary Award" (Film Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France, 2005).

Selected artworks

Selected publications and catalogues

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: An Evening With Bouchra Khalili | MoMA. The Museum of Modern Art. Mar 8, 2019.
  2. Web site: Bouchra Khalili: The Mapping Journey Project. The Museum of Modern Art. Mar 8, 2019.
  3. Web site: BOUCHRA KHALILI | Palais de Tokyo, centre d'art contemporain . 2015-05-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150512183739/http://www.palaisdetokyo.com/en/exhibition/bouchra-khalili . 2015-05-12 .
  4. Web site: Bouchra Khalili. www.macba.cat. Mar 8, 2019.
  5. http://235bowery.s3.amazonaws.com/exhibitionlinks/108/ArtistList_HereandElsewhere_V6.pdf Exhibition Links. Here and Elsewhere
  6. Web site: Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto . 2015-05-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150614192534/http://www.jmbgallery.ca/ExKhalili.html . 2015-06-14 . dead .
  7. Web site: Bouchra Khalili's "Words on Streets". Jun 5, 2013. Artsy. Mar 8, 2019.
  8. Web site: Project Gallery: Bouchra Khalili. www.pamm.org. Mar 8, 2019.
  9. Web site: Intense Proximity - Announcements - e-flux. www.e-flux.com. Mar 8, 2019.
  10. Web site: Sharjah Art Foundation - the Mapping Journey Project, 2008-2011 . 2015-05-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110913201532/http://www.sharjahart.org/projects/projects-by-date/2011/the-mapping-journey-project-khalili . 2011-09-13 . dead .
  11. Web site: Bouchra Khalili. www.documenta14.de. en. 2019-03-23.
  12. Web site: Bouchra Khalili Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. www.radcliffe.harvard.edu. en. 2017-05-21.
  13. Web site: The Abraaj Group: Bouchra Khalili, Garden Conversation . 2015-05-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150423010314/http://www.abraaj.com/sustainability/art-and-innovation/bouchra-khalili-garden-conversation . 2015-04-23 .
  14. Web site: BIENVENUE SUR SAM ART PROJECTS · SAM Art Projects. SAM Art Projects. Mar 8, 2019.
  15. Web site: July 10: DAAD Fellow Bouchra Khalili. Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.. Mar 8, 2019.
  16. Web site: The Vera List Center for Arts and Politics | Bouchra Khalili. www.veralistcenter.org. Mar 8, 2019. June 14, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150614005329/http://www.veralistcenter.org/engage/people/1822/bouchra-khalili/. dead.
  17. Web site: Videobrasil . 2015-05-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150614043741/http://www2.sescsp.org.br/sesc/videobrasil/site/residencias/2009_en.asp . 2015-06-14 .
  18. Web site: SAM Art Projects - Bouchra KHALILI - Foreign Office . https://archive.today/20150608001656/http://www.samartprojects.org/publication/5052/Bouchra_KHALILI_-_Foreign_Office/ . 8 June 2015 . dead.
  19. Web site: Here and Elsewhere . 2015-05-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150922073500/http://www.newmuseumstore.org/browse.cfm/here-and-elsewhere/4%2C6455.html . 2015-09-22 .
  20. Web site: Shop - Kunstpalais Erlangen. www.kunstpalais.de. Mar 8, 2019.
  21. Web site: Mirages d'Orient, grenades & figues de Barbarie. Mar 8, 2019. www.actes-sud.fr. July 8, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190708134014/https://www.actes-sud.fr/catalogue/arts-plastiques-et-sculpture/mirages-dorient. dead.
  22. Book: Intense proximité guide de l'exposition: Palais de Tokyo et lieux associés du 20 avril au 26 août 2012 = Intense proximity : exhibition guide : Palais de Tokyo and collaborating institutions from April 20-August 26, 2012. Mar 8, 2012. Centre national des arts plastiques : Artlys. 834808565. Mar 8, 2019. Open WorldCat.
  23. Book: Intense proximity: an anthology of the near and the far. Okwui. Enwezor. France. Palais de Tokyo (Museum : Paris). Mar 8, 2012. Centre national des arts plastiques Tour Atlantique : Artlys. 798059153. Mar 8, 2019. Open WorldCat.
  24. Web site: Archived copy . 2015-05-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183900/http://www.parisphoto.com/content/upload/files/525be331adbc3table-of-contents-mutations-perspectives-on-photography-with-the-list-of-60-authors.pdf . 2016-03-03 . dead .
  25. Web site: Sharjah Art Foundation - Plot for a Biennial . 2015-05-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183052/http://www.sharjahart.org/publications1/overview/plot-for-a-biennial-sharjah-biennial-10 . 2016-03-03 . dead .
  26. Book: Amazon.com . bouchra khalili - story mapping: 9782918399018: Amazon.com: Books . 2010 . 978-2918399018 .

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