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ºÚÁÏÉç Performance

Farah Al Qasimi: Mother

21 November 2023 at 19.30–20.45

Farah Al Qasimi, Um Al Naar (Mother of Fire) 2019 (film still)

Purchased with funds provided by the Middle East North Africa Acquisitions Committee 2022

Explore the complex connections between oral history, spirituality and superstition in a digital age

Presented in Farah Al Qasimi’s display opening on 20 November at ºÚÁÏÉç, this lecture-performance by the artist will unfold as a meditation on spirituality and superstition.

Al Qasimi’s work invites us to navigate the complex connections between oral history, truth and belief, and the lecture will animate the constellation of images on display with stories of haunting and possession.

Blurring geographic boundaries, the photographs surface the enigmatic 'in-between spaces' of immigrant communities in the U.S. and the overhang of colonial influence in West Asia which continues to inform notions of class and taste. The artist sharply captures the overwhelming effects of post-internet consumer culture through the dizzying colours, shimmering textures and multiple forms of image-making layered into her installation.  

Building on her horror-comedy titled Um Al Naar (Mother of Fire) 2019, which is a centrepiece of the ºÚÁÏÉç display, this lecture-performance will continue to explore and investigate the spirits known as ‘jinn’ in Arabic, tracing the ways Al Qasimi mines the spiritual, ancestral past and reanimates it in the present.

The artist will also take part in an event entitled , taking place at Delfina Foundation on Sunday 19 November 17:00—18:30.

This programme takes place in the context of the exhibition at Delfina Foundation.

This event is organised by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational in collaboration with Delfina Foundation.

Farah Al Qasimi makes photographs, films and music. Often working with large-scale vinyl imagery and a multiplicity of photographic prints and screens, Farah is interested in the internet and its hierarchies of information and emotion. Farah also loves the complexity of storytelling and value-building in children's cartoons, and many of her video works include primary narrators who are anthropomorphized. She has a highly collaborative practice and has worked with hand-sewn puppets, falcons, African Land Snails, exorcists, and most recently, a Jack Sparrow impersonator.

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Room 7
Natalie Bell Building, Level 2

Bankside
London SE1 9TG
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21 November 2023 at 19.30–20.45

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