Jumana Emil Abboud
- Jumana Emil Abboud in collaboration with Issa Freij, Looking for water (location scouting for Maskouneh). Photo : © Issa Freij
Born in Shefa-’Amr in 1971, Jumana Emil Abboud lives and works between Jerusalem and London, where she is a PhD student at the Slade School of Art/UCL.
In her work, she mixes drawings, videos, performances, texts, collections of objects and stories, to explore the unspeakable links that are created between people and their environment. She is interested in our memory, as it can be recorded by bodies, places and natural elements, through stories, myths or rituals. The artist also studies narrative practices, its oral forms, as well as the way in which these narratives and tales relate to a particular landscape and natural sites. How is history - personal or collective - both motivated and recorded by our environment? How is it told and how does this affects our perception of this environment, whether natural or cultural? How do we shape our living environment through these narratives, and how do they shape us in return? How and why are we ‘attached’ to places: how are we ‘connected’ to the place in which we live? These are all questions that Jumana Emil Abboud’s work asks.
Jumana Emil Abboud has participated in numerous international exhibitions and events over the past ten years. Since 2008, her work has been included in: L’Art au féminin, MAMA (Musée national d’art moderne et contemporain), 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; When animals talked to humans, Gallery Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, 2018.
Her work has been featured in several solo exhibitions: 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.
She has participated in the 53rd & 56th Biennale di Venezia, 2009
and 2015; Qalandiya International, Palestine, 2012 and 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 Unweaving Narratives, The Palestinian Museum, Birzeit, 2018.
In 2020, she is welcomed in residence at the Villa Vassilieff (in January and February). Visit the dedicated page on our website.
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