Project Gallery: Bouchra Khalili
Dec. 4, 2013 - March 30, 2014
Bouchra Khalili (b.1975) investigates the experiences of identity, immigration, and transience. Working primarily in film and video, she reflects the nomadic and often transnational state of existence that defines life for many people throughout the world. Khalili uses a mode of poetic documentation to illuminate the lived realities of an increasingly mobilized world. Her newest work, commissioned by Pérez Art Museum Miami, is the third and final chapter of The Speeches Series. A video trilogy (2012-2013). Each of these incisive, unadorned works focuses on the act of speaking, featuring five individuals who give powerful, subjective accounts of their personal experiences amid larger political and economic spheres.
Khalili’s videos provide a vehicle through which her subjects deliver affecting speeches, expressing their own complex status within their adopted and native homelands in the language of their choice. Speeches - Chapter 1: Mother Tongue (2012) addresses language itself through a reinterpretation of famous political texts from history. Shot in Genoa, Italy, Speeches - Chapter 2: Words on Streets (2013), explores issues of citizenship, belonging, and nationalism through original manifestos written and presented by each subject. The last chapter of The Speeches Series, which will debut at PAMM, was produced in New York and focuses on immigrants who live and work in the city. These subjects reveal the political consciousness inherent to their clandestine lives and labor, creating a meaningful and urgent discourse on the contemporary, immigrant working class.
Highlights from the Exhibition
Additional Resources
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Gallery Notes - English
This curatorial essay goes into depth about Bouchra Khalili's film.
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Gallery Notes - Spanish
This curatorial essay goes into depth about Bouchra Khalili's film.
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Press Release: PAMM Opens with New Installations by Artists Yael Bartana, Bouchra Khalili, Hew Locke and Monica Sosnowska
In October 2012, the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) invited Israeli artist Yael Bartana, Moroccan artist Bouchra Khalili, British artist Hew Locke, and Polish artist Monika Sosnowska to engage in a year-long process designed to stimulate cultural exchange, public interaction with the artists and Museum, and the creation of new work.
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Press Release: PAMM Announces Inaugural Exhibition Schedule
The selection and presentation of artists, collections, and commissioned projects for PAMM is guided by the Museum’s mission to create dialogues across and through local, regional, and international contexts and to emphasize artists and projects that engage with traditions from the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
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Press Release: PAMM Commissions Works from Four International Artists for New Museum's December 2013 Reopening
The artists, Yael Bartana (b. 1970, Kfar Yehezkel, Israel), Bouchra Khalili (b. 1975, Casablanca, Morocco), Hew Locke (b. 1959, Edinburgh, Scotland) and Monika Sosnowska (b. 1972, Ryki, Poland), are among the leading contemporary artists working around the world today.