ES E3: Social Arrangements and Structures with Mashael & Dania (Evaporating Suns Special Season)
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The third episode of the special season of Khosh Bosh with Anita focuses on the subtheme Social Arrangements and Structures from the Evaporating Suns exhibition. I am joined by Mashael Alsaie and my co-host for this episode, Dania Al Tamimi. Tune in to hear more about Mashael’s practice in general and her commissioned work for Evaporating Suns, titled Barren Spring, in specific. In this episode, Dania and I explore how social structures and dynamics are affected by the myths we hear and how the myths we tell shape those social dynamics in turn, as well as how people are introduced to myths in her work, creating an experience of maintaining various perspectives and narratives around the same event or place, at the same time. Mashael Alsaie holds a BA in Urban Studies from UC Berkeley and is currently pursuing an MA in Photography, Video, and Media Arts from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. She is a Bahraini photographer and video artist whose work forms fractured narratives that reflect critical thinking about femininity, ritual, and representation. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at Misk, Riyadh (2020), PS122, New York (2019), and the Bahrain Annual Fine Arts Festival (2020). She completed a residency at Residency Unlimited in Brooklyn, New York, and is a fellow at Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation (2021). Her work has featured in such publications as Vogue Arabia and Vogue Italia, Al Ja- zeera Plus, Emirates Woman, MinaaZine, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Mille, Nasi, and GirlGaze Dania Al Tamimi is an artist, curator, and researcher. Al Tamimi co-founded Rummān Collective, an online platform for emerging artists, and is currently the Curatorial Planning Coordinator at Dirwaza Curatorial Lab. Al Tamimi curated her first independent show with 421 Biography of a Passage, 2023 at Art Dubai. Al Tamimi views her practice as an exploratory journey focusing on questioning definitions and binaries. This special season of Khosh Bosh consists of four hour-long episodes that discuss the works from the exhibition, Evaporating Suns, in-depth with the artists and curators, as well as a myth library that showcases the different myths that the the KBH.G and Dirwaza teams grew up hearing. The thirteen artists showcased in this exhibition are Maitha Abdalla, Mays Albaik, Fatema Al Fardan, Moza Al Matrooshi, Abdullah Alothman, Farah Al Qasimi, Mashael Alsaie, Zuhoor Al Sayegh, Asma Belhamar, Alaa Edris, Saif Mhaisen, Fatima Uzdenova, and Bu Yousuf. The exhibition is presented by KBH.G in Basel, Switzerland and is curated by Dirwaza Curatorial Lab with the support of Verena Formanek. Presented by Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger I KBH.G. Season sponsored by the Foundry in Downtown Dubai. Music by Ronald Ekore.
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