‘Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Relatable Politics’, Textuur - 2023

I first heard about her in class. They put up photographs of her work on a large screen.
It resonated with me. Her hands digging into dirt with a ripped rag. Her nails scraping unidentifiable black gunk.

Her spilling water on the steps of a museum with a neutral, focused expression...(read more here)

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‘Ecole des Beaux-Arts Casablanca’,  Bauhaus Digital Atlas - 2023

French protectorate officials founded the Casablanca School of Fine Arts in the 1920s, but they only officially inaugurated it in 1951. Arguably, the school itself was part of the broader colonial strategy to take advantage of Moroccan resources and labour... (read more here)

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‘School of Casablanca’,  Bauhaus Digital Atlas - 2023

In 2020, KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Sharjah Art Foundation, in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Marokko, ThinkArt and Zamân Books & Curating, initiated the collaborative project School of Casablanca... (read more here)

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‘And for you, what does it mean to be free?’,  Different Class (print) - 2023

We asked several creatives to share their thoughts on art, resistance and freedom. Illustrator, Sirien Salameh, painter, Ismail Mattar, artist, Firas El Hallak, musician Shadi Zaqtan, poet and co-founder of Palettes of Palestine, Hala El Mohor, photographer, Abdulazez Dukhan and art collective Tashattot -  each shared their unique forms of expression regarding Palestinian freedom. Full article available in Different Class’ print issue for January 2024.

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Talking back: A back and forth on belonging,  Skin Mutts (print) - 2022

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‘From one Lens to Another’, Different Class, 2022 

What happens behind the camera lens? Seated in a dim corner of Vivian Maier’s exhibition The Self-Portrait and its Double at Bozar, in between framed photographs and a movie rolling on a large screen. We met with photographer Agneskena and talked about intimacy, film and the relationship between the subject and photographer...(read interview here)

 

‘You want to do something, you want to scream, but no one is listening’, Different Class, 2022 

While exploring Rinus Van de Velde’s dreamlike exhibition Inner Travels, conducted by EUROPALIA, we met Denys Shantar, a Ukrainian artist who grew up in Switzerland but is currently based in Antwerp. In between a makeshift life-sized cardboard train, gripping charcoal and oil paintings, disorienting films and a captivating humanoid plastic mask, we talked home, roots, daydreams and politics. The interview was first conducted on Friday 18 Feb. Russian military forces invaded Ukraine on 24 Feb. Denys Shantar asked us to provide an update to his questions, in light of the events...(read interview here)

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‘A Concrete for the “Other Half?”’,  Bauhaus Taschenbuch 24, Spector Books - 2021 

A sulphur concrete block, wrapped in tissue paper, meticulously archived in the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. This is part of the extensive collection of the Minimum Cost Housing Group, which examined housing and building practices in developing nations in the scope of their research and projects realised in the 1970s...(get book here)
 

‘The Block’ in Zeitschrift der Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Issue #12: Habitat  - 2020

Article online available in print (get magazine here)

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‘On Abbas Zahedi's 'How to Make a How From a Why"  - 2020

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