In this event Jumana Emil Abboud presents her new artist book In Aching Agony And Longing I Wait For You By The Spring Of Thieves. Abboud’s artistic practice confronts the telling and retelling of history and the impacts of language and the fragmentation of memories, posing questions about memory, the body, folklore and rituals. The Jerusalem-based artist’s oeuvre includes visual, poetic and text-based projects. Aching Agony and Longing I wait for you by the Spring of Thieves focuses on two projects—Maskouneh (Inhabited), 2015–2017, and I Feel Nothing, 2012–2015. Closing the book are contributions by Marina Warner and Tina Sherwell that thoughtfully engage with Abboud’s practice at large.
Edited by Lara Khaldi and published by Black Dog Press, this publication is supported by Bildmuseum, Umeå University, Sweden; Darat al Funun – the Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman; and the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), Garage Aarau, Daniel Sachs Foundation, Barjeel Foundation and many others.
This event is in partnership with Mosaic Rooms.
This event received the generous support of Rana Sadik and Samer Younis.
Biographies
Jumana Emil Abboud
Jumana Emil Abboud is a Palestinian artist based in Jerusalem. She uses drawing, video, performance, objects, and text to navigate themes of memory, loss, and resilience. She has shown at the Venice, Sharjah and Istanbul Biennales; the Bahrain National Museum; the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris. Recent solo exhibitions and performances: BALTIC centre for contemporary art, Gateshead, Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre, Ramallah, Bildmuseum, Umeå University, Sweden, Darat al Funun – The Khalid Shoman Foundation Amman, and Living Together performance festival, Museum of Art & Design, Dade college, Miami, Florida.
Catherine Wood
Catherine Wood works on performance projects, exhibitions, collection acquisitions and displays at Tate Modern, as well as being actively engaged in research. She was instrumental in founding the performance programme at Tate in 2003 and since then has programmed more than two hundred live works by artists including Mark Leckey, Tania Bruguera, Trisha Brown, Katerina Šedá, Bojana Cvejić, Ei Arakawa and others, both at Tate and within the online space Performance Room that she initiated in 2011. With Andrea Lissoni she initiated the annual live exhibition in The Tanks: Ten Days Six Nights in 2017 and is curator of the Hyundai commission for 2018.