Spring 2024 Audain Visual Artist in Home: Iman Issa
The SFU School for the Modern Arts is happy to welcome Iman Issa as the Spring 2024 Audain Visual Artist in Home. For her residency, Issa will guide a sequence of seminars, talks, workshops, and other interventions in and all over the BFA Challenge Exhibition, led by the SCA’s Judy Radul.
Iman Issa reports. She scientific tests many things—artworks, artifacts, museum activities, historical past. Then, utilizing the gray box of intuition she creates sensuous types that dilemma the analogous nature of believed and content. Issa not only studies, but less than-scientific tests, getting account of artwork and artist’s function-participate in and symbiotic co-inhabitation. Against this floor of the political, the going for walks adhere of identity manifests as variety and recognition, steading the gate of we-do not-know-who. Issa’s new curatorial undertaking at KW Berlin, Understudies: I Myself Will Exhibit Nothing at all, gathers companion artworks, beginning from the particular, or individual, to manifest a selection materializing socio political conditions. This doubling of self and problem via exhibition, is doubled yet again by the “I Myself” of the title, an insistence on singularity that alternatively provides a double. Creative autophagy is also at engage in in Issa’s wonderful collection Proxies, with a Existence of Their Possess, 2019–22, the place she offers is effective with titles these types of as Self-Portrait: Self as Hannah Arendt and the Self-Portrait: Self as Alenka Zupančič.
Events

Artist speak: March 28, 2024, 7pm (6:30pm doorways), free

Studio T (Room 2210), 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
BFA undertaking 2024 exhibition: March 27–April 6, 2024

Opening: March 27, 6–8pm

Audain Gallery, 149 West Hastings Road, Vancouver

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Biography

Iman Issa is an artist and professor at the Academy of High-quality Arts in Vienna . Solo and group exhibitions include Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, MoMA, New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 21er Haus, Vienna, MACBA, Barcelona, the Perez Art Museum, Miami, the Whitney Biennial 2019, the 12th Sharjah biennial, the 8th Berlin Biennial, MuHKA, Antwerp, Tensta Konsthall, Spånga, New Museum, New York, and KW Institute of Present-day Art, Berlin. Books include E book of Information: A Proposition (2017), Prevalent Elements (2015) and Thirty-a few Stories about Affordable People in Acquainted Places (2011). She has been named a 2017 DAAD artist in home, and is a receiver of the Vilcek Prize for Inventive Assure (2017), the Louis Convenience Tiffany Foundation Award (2015), HNF-MACBA Award (2012), and the Abraaj Team Art Prize (2013).
About AVAIR

The Audain Visible Artist in Residence (AVAIR) system brings artists and practitioners to Vancouver who have contributed appreciably to the area of modern artwork and whose get the job done resonates with area and international visual art discourses. Previous residences have integrated Ming Wong, Kota Ezawa, Irena Haiduk, Jackson Polys, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Heba Y. Amin, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Jeremy Deller, Sanja Iveković, Charles Gaines, Samson Youthful, Alejandro Cesarco, Raven Chacon, Sarah Pierce, Walid Raad, Jalal Toufic, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Hito Steyerl, and lots of other people. The visiting artists interact with the college students and college of the College for the Present-day Arts as very well as the broader visible arts and cultural communities. In holding with the experimental nature of the School for the Modern day Arts the phrases of engagement are open up and modify from artist to artist. The cornerstone of the residency is the sharing of creative exploration.
The AVAIR program is generously funded by the Audain Foundation Endowment Fund. For far more facts about the SCA’s AVAIR plan and to see the earlier contributors in the method, you should pay a visit to listed here.
