Jumana Emil Abboud / Pernod Ricard Fellowship 2020
- Jumana Emil Abboud, by Colin Davison
Jumana Emil Abboud (b.1971, Palestine-Canada) lives and works in Jerusalem and London where she is currently a PhD candidate at Slade School of Art. She uses drawing, video, performance and text to navigate themes of memory, loss, and resilience.
Abboud has participated in numerous international exhibitions and festivals during the last decade. Since 2008 her work has been included in: Women Artists, MAMA (Musée national d’art moderne et contemporain d’Alger), Algiers, 2008; Intimate Narratives - Masarat Palestine, Les Halles des Schaerbek, Brussels, 2008; Scènes du Sud II – Méditerranée Orientale, Carré d’Art–Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes, 2008; Sentences on the Banks, Darat al Funun, Amman, 2010; Acción! MAD–International Festival of Performance Art, Madrid, 2010; Paper Feather Sugar Water, Foundation 3,14, Berge, 2011; Second World, Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz, 2011; Points of Departure, Al-Mahatta Gallery, Ramallah, and ICA, London, 2013; Cinematic Prism, Arts Initiative Tokyo, Tokyo, 2017; On Women and Revolution, Gallery One, Ramallah, 2017; and When animals talked to humans, Gallery Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, 2018. Solo exhibitions have included: Haunted Springs and Water Demons in Palestine, Kunstraum, London & BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, 2016; O whale don’t swallow our moon!, Khalil Sakakini cultural center, Ramallah, 2016; The Horse, the bird, the Tree and Stone, Bildmuseet, Umeå University, Umeå, 2017; The pomegranate and the sleeping ghoul, Darat Al Funun – Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman, 2017; in addition to the 53rd & 56th Biennale di Venezia, 2009 & 2015; Qalandiya International, Palestine, 2012 & 2016; Sharjah Biennial 13: Tamawuj in Ramallah Shifting Ground, 2017; Living Together performance festival, MOAD DADE College, Miami; BMW TATE LIVE Exhibition, Tate Modern, London, 2018; and Hide Your Water from the Sun performance, The Palestinian Museum, Birzeit, 2018.
The project
Inspired by Palestinian oral history, with a focus on folktales and their connection to actual sites within the landscape, and to water in particular: streams, springs, wells. Water as a ‘keeper’ as well as ‘carrier’ of knowledge and memory. During her residency stay, Abboud will expand on her research on the place of water as a source of story, past and present, fable and real. She will follow stories of water across France, tapping into its materiality and value, through visits and exchanges with people, museums, libraries and landscapes in order to translate the tales and fables surrounding water.
- Jumana Emil Abboud, Bride by the Spring, 100x80, Canvas, 2016. Courtesy Khaled Shoman Foundation. Photo : Issa Freij.
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