The Gwangju Biennale is designed as a dynamic series of collaborations around the general theme of "roundtable." Through featuring artwork from across the globe, the festival becomes a process of fluid discourse over art and worldwide culture. The biennale showcases the work of over 92 artists, artist groups, and temporary collectives from 44 countries.
Many Arab artists are featured in the biennale this year, including Ala Younis (Palestine/Jordan), Fayçal Baghriche (Algeria), Fouad Elkoury (France/Lebanon), Haroon Mirza (UK), Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige (Lebanon), Maha Maamoun (Egypt), Malak Helmy (Egypt), Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi (Netherlands/Iran), Nástio Mosquito (Angola), Rasheed Araeen (UK), Shuruq Harb (Palestine), Slavs and Tatars (Eurasia), Sophia Al-Maria (Qatar), Wael Shawky (Egypt), and the West Eastern Divan Orchestra (Israel/Palestine/Arab world).
"Roundtable invites us to consider the tension between belonging and anonymity, diverse forms of collectives within historic and contemporary contexts, and the affects that temporality, spatiality and mobility have on the individual and the collective," reads the official Gwangju Biennale press release.
The 9th Gwangju Biennale will commence 7 September and run to 11 November, in Gwangju city in South Korea.
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