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Bouchra Khalili: Imagining the Past, Writing the Future
Bouchra Khalili, artist and professor at The Academy of Fine Art, in conversation with the curators Marianne Hultman and Antonio Cataldo at Fotogalleriet.
In the past fifteen years, French-Moroccan artist Bouchra Khalili has presented artist’s films, video installations, photographs and silkscreen prints suggesting civic platforms for members of political minorities and marginalized groups, articulating subjective positions and collective voice. Khalili’s oeuvre reflects on new forms of thinking civic identity beyond national belonging, where a collective emancipation is organically tight to the power of speech and alternative historiographies, shaping strategies of resistance to arbitrary power. Retold narratives both uncover at missing links, while pointing towards the future for a better understanding and approach to human politics.
Khalili is a highly regarded artist internationally, having exhibited her work at major events such as documenta 14, the 55th Venice Biennale, the 18th Biennale of Sydney, the 10th Sharjah Biennale, and through solo-exhibitions at MoMA, New York, Jeu de Paume National Gallery, Paris, Secession, Vienna, Maxxi, Rome, MACBA, Barcelona and Museum Folkwang, Essen, among others. She is currently a Professor at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO).
In this conversation with curators Antonio Cataldo and Marianne Hultman, Khalili will speak about recent works while hinting towards a forthcoming project in development at Fotogalleriet and Oslo Kunstforening, together with the producer TrAP, dealing with the complex Scandinavian support to the liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s in a number of African countries. Among the works that will be discussed are projects produced during Khalili's professorship, such as Foreign Office (2015, mixed media project, comprising a digital film and 16 prints), the feature film "The Tempest Society" (2017), premiered at documenta 14, and the digital film "Twenty-Two Hours", produced with the support of a KUF grant. "Twenty Two Hours" (2018) premiered at Jeu de Paume, and later shown at Museum Folkwang, Secession, Maxxi, and currently on view at Cardiff National Museum for the 8th Artes Mundi Prize exhibition. "Twenty-Two Hours" will have its US premiere in March 2019 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as part of a solo exhibition comprising new works.
This event is part of Let’s Talk about Images is Fotogalleriet’s new discursive programme.