FORUM on HERE&NOW16 / GenYM
Event Information
Description
Take part in a discussion on the interchanges between notions of contemporary, modern Islamic and Muslim art in light of what may be considered new wave Muslim art. Consider the contradictions, expectations and inconsistencies including issues of sexuality and gender concerns against a background of politico-strategic developments in Muslim states and other societies.
This forum is part of the public program of the exhibition HERE&NOW16 / GenYM running from April 30 - July 16 at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA.
Speakers:
The program will include talks and discussions by key participating artists including Abdul Abdullah, Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Idil Abdullahi, Fatima Mawas, Rubaba Haider and Nadia Faragaab; exhibition curator Hamida Novakovich; art historian and Art Gallery of Western Australia Director, Dr Stefano Carboni; academic Professor Samina Yasmeen; UWA Cultural Precinct Director, Professor Ted Snell; Dr Darren Jorgensen, Rusaila Bazlamit and Mustafa Al Mahdi.
Lunch and afternoon tea will be provided.
Campus Partner:
This event is made possible through a campus partnership with the Centre for Muslim States and Societies.
HERENOW16/GenYM
A firsthand look at being yound and Muslim in modern Australia.
The featured artists are (almost) all members of ‘Generation Y’, growing up or migrating to Australia in the 1990s and early 2000s, and their work reflects lives spent living with and challenging a ‘post-9/11’ construction of Muslim identity.
Abdul Abdullah’s photography and Fatima Mawas’s short films starkly confront the contradictions that continue to emerge from anti-Muslim sentiments in Australia. Nadia Faragaab and Idil Abdullahi express notions of ‘Somaliness’ through domestic objects representing romantic yearnings for Somalia. Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Zahrah Habibullah and Rubaba Haider recollect delicate objects evoking childhood memories and familiar surroundings. Suzi Elhafez deconstructs concepts of Islamic ornamentation and cosmology through the senses, while Marziya Mohammedali exposes the ongoing plight of asylum seekers in Australia’s detention centres.
HERE&NOW is a series of annual exhibitions at LWAG that are led by emerging curators and showcase the outstanding work of contemporary Western Australian artists.
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Cover image: Zahrah Habibullah, Palestine Keys-In memory of..., 2014, acrylic, sterling silver, cotton, nylon 9.7 x 4 cm
