Artist talk: Alia Farid

In conversation with Caroline Ugelstad & María Inés Rodríguez

Kunstnersamtale
Alia Farid foto Myriam Boulos

Alia Farid. Photo: Myriam Boulos

Henie Onstad invites you to an artist talk with Alia Farid and the two curators of the exhibition Alia Farid: Bneid Al Gar.

Date Place Free with museum ticket, for members and under 18y visitors
Prisma Galleries

Meet the third recipient of the Lise Wilhelmsen Art Ward, Alia Farid, in conversation with curators Caroline Ugelstad and María Inés Rodríguez.

The exhibition at Henie Onstad is Alia Farid's largest exhibition to date – and the first in the Nordics. Through her art, Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican Farid wants to highlight suppressed narratives, and she is concerned with migration and the change of people, places, traditions and material cultures as a result of geopolitical events.

The exhibition title Bneid Al Gar, Arabic for land of tar, refers to Farid's experiences growing up in an area of Kuwait where large bruise-like stains of oil once punctuated the surface of the earth.

Farid's practice cuts across visual expressions, techniques and craft traditions. The production is closely linked to the themes she investigates. The exhibition presents a selection of carpets from the series Elsewhere (2023), five sculptures from the series In Lieu of What Is (2022), the installation Palm Orchard (2022) and several video works, as well as newly produced paper works.

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Alia Farid, Elsewhere - El Nilo /menú, 2023. Courtesy the artist.

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Alia Farid, In Lieu of What Is, 2022, Installation view, Kunsthalle Basel. Photo: Philipp Hänger

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Alia Farid, Palm Orchard, 2022. Installation photo: Ron Amstutz. Courtesy the artist

Participants:

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    Caroline Ugelstad

    Director Collection and Exhibitions / Chief Curator at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter

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    María Inés Rodríguez

    Director of Walter Leblanc Foundation, Brussels, and Founder of Tropical Papers