Doha: A talk on “Arab Women Artists Today” is set for tomorrow, April 6 virtually featuring the artist Youmna Chlala.
This is part of a lecture series entitled Decolonising Art Narratives: Arab Women Artists Today, which is a collaboration between Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar (VCUarts Qatar) Painting and Printmaking Department, and the Fire Station.
The lecture series brings together critical female Arab voices in Art and Design. It was launched February last year and featured 14 acclaimed artists including Chlala.
According to VCUarts Qatar, the series will ask how Arab women artists can revisit and re-think existing narratives in contemporary art, and will explore issues of gender, politics, colonialism, culture, and identity.
The artist Youmna Chlala was born in Beirut and is based in New York. She is an artist and a writer whose work investigates the relationship between fate and architecture through drawing, video, sculpture, prose and performance.
She has exhibited at the Hayward Gallery, The Drawing Center, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Dubai Art Projects, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter and MAK Center for Art and Architecture.
Chlala participated in the 33rd Bienal de São Paulo, 7th LIAF Biennial in Norway, and 11th Performa Biennial. Chlala is the author of the poetry collection, The Paper Camera (Litmus Press, 2019).
She is the recipient of a 2018 O. Henry Award and a Joseph Henry Jackson Award. She is co-editing a new series for Coffee House Press entitled Spatial Species.
Interested individuals who wish to participate may register via Fire Station website. The free lecture will be via Zoom at 7:30pm.
