Art Fwd: Nour Mobarak

Art Fwd: Nour Mobarak

Join artist Nour Mobarak for an unscripted journey charting the varied media, material, and methods central to her work. With a practice spanning performance, sound, and sculpture, Mobarak explores the intersensory potential of language and the human voice. Recent presentations at MoMA and as part of the Whitney Biennial highlight Mobarak’s ongoing investigation into the sound and language moving across time and bodies, both human and mycological.

This talk is co-presented with the UW School of Art + Art History + Design with an audience Q&A to follow.

Bio

Nour Mobarak (Lebanese American, b. Cairo, Egypt) lives and works between Los Angeles; Bainbridge Island; and Athens, Greece. Mobarak excavates violence and desire in organic and societal bodies – the compulsions, and glitches in a person or nation state. Her body and body of work acts, in voice, sculpture, sound, performance, writing and video, as one hybrid part under current geopolitical conditions. Her works have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, NY (2024-2025); Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2024-2025); Miguel Abreu Gallery, NY (2025, 2021, 2019); Sylvia Kouvali, London and Piraeus, (2023, 2017); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge(2022); Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2023). She has performed at Western Front, Vancouver; the Hammer Museum, LA; Cafe OTO, London; Renaissance Society, Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, SD; and elsewhere.

About Art Fwd

Art Fwd is a new public lecture series on contemporary art and ideas featuring field-defining artists, curators, and thinkers. In addition to the public talk, invited speakers engage with University of Washington students through studio visits and critiques. Art Fwd is co-presented by the Henry and the University of Washington School of Art + Art History + Design.

Accessibility

The Henry strives to be a welcoming and accessible space for all visitors. Assisted Listening Devices (ALDs) will be available. For additional accessibility information, please visit henryart.org/visit/accessibility or contact Museum Services at 206.221.3850 or info@henryart.org with questions or needs.

Credits

Generous support for this lecture series is provided by the Floyd and Delores Jones Endowed Fund for the Arts and the Endowed Program Support FUNd in Art.