Akram Zaatari
28 Jun - 13 Sep 2013
AKRAM ZAATARI
The End of Time
28 June - 13 September 2013
After his solo exhibition in 2012 at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) at UNAM, Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari is presenting his second exhibition, The End of Time, in Mexico City at kurimanzutto. The exhibition shows works which, informed by his ongoing research on vernacular Middle Eastern photography, explore aspects of representation, identity, intimacy, and desire and how they are ultimately recorded. Working with existing photographic iconography Zaatari constructs layers of meaning that allow a more complex reading of our own portraits, how we choose to depict ourselves, photographs as records, and the archive as a potential capital.
Zaatari is co-founder of the Arab Image Foundation, a groundbreaking, artist-driven organization devoted to the collection, research, and study of photographs in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Arab diaspora. He has made invaluable and uncompromising contributions to the wider discourse on preservation and archival practices. Besides representing Lebanon in the 55 Venice Biennial 2013, his works have been featured in dOCUMENTA(13), 2012, the Istanbul Biennial 2011, and the 52 Venice Biennale 2007. His work has been shown in institutions such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Tate Modern in London, Kunstverein and Haus der Kunst in Munich, Le Magasin in Grenoble, MUSAC in Leon, MUAC in Mexico City, Videobrasil in Sao Paulo, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
The End of Time
28 June - 13 September 2013
After his solo exhibition in 2012 at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) at UNAM, Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari is presenting his second exhibition, The End of Time, in Mexico City at kurimanzutto. The exhibition shows works which, informed by his ongoing research on vernacular Middle Eastern photography, explore aspects of representation, identity, intimacy, and desire and how they are ultimately recorded. Working with existing photographic iconography Zaatari constructs layers of meaning that allow a more complex reading of our own portraits, how we choose to depict ourselves, photographs as records, and the archive as a potential capital.
Zaatari is co-founder of the Arab Image Foundation, a groundbreaking, artist-driven organization devoted to the collection, research, and study of photographs in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Arab diaspora. He has made invaluable and uncompromising contributions to the wider discourse on preservation and archival practices. Besides representing Lebanon in the 55 Venice Biennial 2013, his works have been featured in dOCUMENTA(13), 2012, the Istanbul Biennial 2011, and the 52 Venice Biennale 2007. His work has been shown in institutions such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Tate Modern in London, Kunstverein and Haus der Kunst in Munich, Le Magasin in Grenoble, MUSAC in Leon, MUAC in Mexico City, Videobrasil in Sao Paulo, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.