The theme Exile: Dispossession and Resistance has been entrusted to independent exhibition curator and founder of the Beirut-based TAP (Temporary Art Platform), Amanda Abi Khalil. It shines a spotlight on a selection of 18 international artists chosen from the exhibiting galleries whose work addresses questions in relation to exile.

According to Amanda Abi Khalil: “Leaving a place does not necessary mean we are no longer there. Whether exile is chosen or forced upon us, it is always something to be endured. Exile highlights our ties with the very people and places that give rise to the feeling of dispossession and transforms the remains of this other place into a condition of survival. These remains anchor us in the non-places we are trying in vain to reach. In the current context of tensions caused by migration, which is exacerbated by wars, economic and climate crises amongst other reasons, this theme sets out to address the complex, porous and highly personnel character of exile and understand it above and beyond purely geographical and identity-based connotations. Highlighted in artistic practices dealing with notions of hospitality, our relationship to others and feelings of strangeness, in an art world that often celebrates the mobility of artist this theme allows “accents” to have the floor.”

Discover the Exile: Dispossession and Resistance booklet below.

^{Amanda Abi Khalil is an independent curator who shares her time between Paris, Beirut, and Rio de Janeiro. She founded the TAP (Temporary Art Platform) in 2014. This curatorial platform is active in the contextual, public, and social practices of contemporary art. It runs artist-in-residence programmes and manages public art commissions and research projects on art in the public space, while focusing on mediation between the art world, geographic regions, and society in general.}

Majd Abdel Hamid, gb agency
Anas Albraehe, Saleh Barakat Gallery
Iván Argote, Perrotin
Taysir Batniji, Galerie Eric Dupont
Roberto Cabot, Galerie Anne De Villepoix
Leyla Cardenas, Dix9 – Hélène Lacharmoise
Nabil El Makhloufi, Galerie l’Atelier 21
Leylâ Gediz, The Pill
Tirdad Hashemi, gb agency
Zarina Hashmi, Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger
Aung Ko, A2Z Gallery
Nge Lay, A2Z Gallery
Boris Mikhailov, Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève
Myriam Mihindou, Galerie Maïa Muller
Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza, Galerie Alain Gutharc
Laure Prouvost , Nathalie Obadia
Christine Safa, Galerie Lelong & Co.
José Ángel Vincench, 193 Gallery

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