Iman Issa
The 間眅埶AV School for the Contemporary Arts is pleased to welcome Iman Issa as the Spring 2024 Audain Visual Artist in Residence. For her residency, Issa will lead a series of seminars, talks, workshops, and other interventions in and around the BFA Project Exhibition, led by the SCA's Judy Radul.
studies. She studies many things artworks, artifacts, museum experiences, history. Then, using the grey box of intuition she produces sensuous forms that question the analogous nature of thought and material. Issa not only studies, but under-studies, taking account of art and artists role-play and symbiotic co-inhabitation. Against this ground of the political, the walking stick of identity manifests as form and recognition, steading the gate of 滄梗-餃棗紳t-域紳棗滄-滄堯棗. Issas recent curatorial project at KW Berlin, , gathers companion artworks, beginning from the particular, or personal, to manifest a collection materializing socio political situations. This doubling of self and situation through exhibition, is doubled again by the I Myself of the title, an insistence on singularity that instead produces a double. Artistic autophagy is also at play in Issas beautiful series , 201922, where she offers works with titles such as Self-Portrait: Self as Hannah Arendt and the Self-Portrait: Self as Alenka Zupani.
Events
Artist Talk
March 28, 2024 | 7:00 PM (6:30 PM doors) | FREE
Studio T (Room 2210)
149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
BFA Project 2024 Exhibition
Opening: Wednesday, March 27, 6:00 PM 8:00 PM
Exhibition: Wednesday, March 27 Saturday, April 6, 2024
Audain Gallery, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
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Biography
Iman Issa is an artist and professor at the Academy of Fine 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, Sp疇nga, New Museum, New York, and KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin. Books include Book of Facts: A Proposition (2017), Common Elements (2015) and Thirty-three Stories about Reasonable Characters in Familiar Places (2011). She has been named a 2017 DAAD artist in residence, and is a recipient of the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise (2017), the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2015), HNF-MACBA Award (2012), and the Abraaj Group Art Prize (2013).
About AVAIR
The Audain Visual Artist in Residence (AVAIR) program brings artists and practitioners to Vancouver who have contributed significantly to the field of contemporary art and whose work resonates with local and international visual art discourses. Past residences have included Ming Wong, Kota Ezawa, Irena Haiduk, Jackson Polys, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Heba Y. Amin, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Jeremy Deller, Sanja Ivekovi, Charles Gaines, Samson Young, Alejandro Cesarco, Raven Chacon, Sarah Pierce, Walid Raad, Jalal Toufic, Jacqueline Hong Nguy廙n, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Hito Steyerl, and many others. The visiting artists interact with the students and faculty of the School for the Contemporary Arts as well as the broader visual arts and cultural communities. In keeping with the experimental nature of the School for the Contemporary Arts the terms of engagement are open and change from artist to artist. The cornerstone of the residency is the sharing of artistic research.
The AVAIR program is generously funded by the Audain Foundation Endowment Fund.
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