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Art Forum Welcomes Mohamed Adelkarim

November 3, 2015, 2:30 pm - 4:20 pm
Location Calcia Hall - 135
SponsorDepartment of Art and Design, College of the ArtsCostNo cost, open to the publicMore Informationhttp:/‌/‌www.montclair.edu/‌arts/‌art-and-design/‌faculty/‌artforum/‌Posted InDepartment of Art and Design
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Mohamed Adelkarim: Possibilities of Telling a Story

His practice engages various subjects within the frameworks of normalcy and compliance, questioning the everyday, relations to authorship, representation, economic capital and difference social currencies, including tourism and religion. In his works, he tests different strategies of exchange, play, camouflage and concealment, often furthering the experience of the various audiences both present and imagined, of his work. The questions he poses through his work are inspired by urgency within a world enmeshed between power, politics and crisis. His work processes engage artists and cultural activities, the language of art and culture and its relationship to financial crisis. As such, his contribution through thought and artistic practice are key at this particular moment of political insurgence and reconfiguration of what art will become in the future. As an artist Abdekarim’s work contributes greatly to the variety of artistic languages emerging from Egypt. He works have been included in the framework of 98Weeks Bazaar at the Thessaloniki Biennial in 2011, the artist-organized Cairo-Documenta show at the Viennoise Hotel in Cairo in 2010 amongst others, He partook in the inaugural interdisciplinary art study program at Home Workspace, Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, Lebanon, recently participant at Sharjah Biennial 2013, and Jogja Biennale XII Indonesia, and part from “In Search of Europe” project in Berlin art space Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien.

Art Forum is a series of lectures and presentations by artists, critics, museum directors, art historians, and curators. Through exposing students to the experiences of international artists and members of the global arts community, this course intends to introduce students to the creative process, different philosophies of art, and the role of art in private and public life.