2006 Whitney Biennial banner, "Day For Night," in front of the Whitney Museum of American Art. (Credit: Wikicommons)
At first glance, the 82nd Whitney Biennial makes no claim to a slogan or manifesto. Yet a closer look at the list of participating artists and the curatorial threads shaping this edition reveals a clear reality: a significant share of today’s contemporary artistic narrative is being articulated from the Middle East and its diasporas.From Palestine to Cairo, Baghdad to Kabul, New York to Athens, artists shaped by fragmented geographies occupy a central place in the exhibition. Their works do not address the Middle East in an illustrative or documentary way. Instead, they displace major themes like memory, exile, power, the body and language in abstract, sonic and conceptual forms that now sit at the heart of American contemporary art. In American culture Charisma and drama as the Kennedy legacy A biennial of 56 artists, without a...
At first glance, the 82nd Whitney Biennial makes no claim to a slogan or manifesto. Yet a closer look at the list of participating artists and the curatorial threads shaping this edition reveals a clear reality: a significant share of today’s contemporary artistic narrative is being articulated from the Middle East and its diasporas.From Palestine to Cairo, Baghdad to Kabul, New York to Athens, artists shaped by fragmented geographies occupy a central place in the exhibition. Their works do not address the Middle East in an illustrative or documentary way. Instead, they displace major themes like memory, exile, power, the body and language in abstract, sonic and conceptual forms that now sit at the heart of American contemporary art. In American culture Charisma and drama as the Kennedy legacy A biennial of 56 artists, without...
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