Four by Four

Projected Works by Beatriz Viana Felgueiras, Çagla Hadimioglu, Hassan Khan, and Moataz Nasr

Curator: Yasmeen Siddiqui
May 7 – June 4, 2005

Beatriz Viana Felgueiras, 2004

Programming:

Roundtable: Constructing the Transnational Artist

Saturday May 7, 2005
Artists Space, 38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor, New York City, 212-226-3970
Artists' talk: 3:00-4:00 p.m.
Roundtable conversation: 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Exhibition opening: 6:00-8:00 p.m.

At the roundtable, we will dissect the term transnational as it operates in contemporary art contexts. An emphasis is placed on current confluences and clashes between the artist, curator, commercial enterprise, and critic.

Los Angeles based curator Magali Arriola, gallery owner Ted Bonin, critic and founding member of Amsterdam's Time Based Arts, David Garcia, with artists Beatriz Viana Felgueiras, Çagla Hadimioglu, Hassan Khan, and Moataz Nasr, and the public, are invited to this roundtable. The conversation is moderated by Yasmeen M. Siddiqui and Pelin Uran.

This roundtable is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Four by Four: Projected works by Beatriz Viana Felgueiras, Çagla Hadimioglu, Hassan Khan, and Moataz Nasr.

The Exhibition

May 7 – June 4, 2005
Artists Space, 38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor, New York City, 212-226-3970
Gallery hours: Tuesday–Saturday 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Admission Free

The human figure is placed within architectural forms in Four by Four. Çagla Hadimioglu's Between Prayers: Proscribed Scenes from a Historic Monument (2002) uses a documentary mode in a monumental Iranian mosque. Beatriz Viana Felgueiras disrupts the Modernist cube with her installation untitled (2004). Moataz Nasr excerpts and restages a monologue from the Egyptian film classic El Ard to build his double projection, The Echo (2003). Hassan Khan pans street lamps and crowds in his work to the man masturbating in the toilet of the Charles De Gaulle airport (2002), while an oral account of a street fight articulates a moment when control is lost.

For more information about this exhibition, e-mail ymsiddiqui@yahoo.com

This exhibition is a master's thesis exhibition curated by Yasmeen Siddiqui and organized by the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in conjunction with its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.

This event is made possible by the Monique Beudert Award and the Ford Foundation.

Four by Four   is one of two exhibitions on display from May 7 to June 4, 2005. Also on display is Things Fall Apart All Over Again

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