Walid Raad: Visiting Artists Program Lecture
@ The School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Visiting Artists Program
230 S. Columbus Dr.
Opening Tuesday, April 25th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Walid Raad
Tuesday, April 25, 6:00 p.m.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium, 230 S. Columbus Dr.
Walid Raad’s work explores how historical events in the Middle East have affected the creation, exhibition, and experience of art in the region and abroad. He is well known for The Atlas Group, a 15-year project between 1989 and 2004 about the contemporary history of Lebanon. The collection of documents archived by Raad presents a fictional universe where the hysterical symptoms of the Lebanese wars are preserved and scrutinized. In the words of critic, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, the works “function not as emblems of fact or scraps of evidence to support the assertions of history, but rather as traces, as symptoms, as strange structural links between history, memory, and fantasy.” Raad’s other ongoing projects include Scratching on Things I Could Disavow and Sweet Talk: Commissions (Beirut). His books include Walkthrough, The Truth Will Be Known When The Last Witness Is Dead, My Neck Is Thinner Than A Hair, Let’s Be Honest The Weather Helped, and Scratching on Things I Could Disavow.
Raad’s solo exhibitions include the Louvre, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Kunsthalle Zürich; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Festival d’Automne, Paris; Kunsten Festival des Arts, Brussels, and the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. His works have also been shown in documenta 11 and 13, Germany; 50th Venice Biennale; 2000 and 2002 Whitney Biennial, New York; 31st São Paulo Biennial; 14th Istanbul Biennial; Home Works 1 and 3, Beirut; and numerous other museums, biennials, and venues in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas.
Raad is also the recipient of the ICP Infinity Award; Hasselblad Award; Guggenheim Fellowship; Alpert Award in Visual Arts; Deutsche Börse Photography Prize; Camera Austria Award; and the Rockefeller Fellowship, among other grants, prizes, and awards.
Image: Walid Raad, Letters to the Reader, 2014, MDF wood and paint, 94 1/2 x 48 x 26 inches each.
Installation view, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, 2016. Photo: Steven Probert © Walid Raad. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
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