Materialising the Imaginary | Slow Art Walk with Mo Reda

Alserkal Avenue

Curator Mo Reda will be leading a tour of a selection of  gallery exhibitions as part of Alserkal Lates on February 27

Alserkal Avenue, A4 Space

Alserkal Art Week | 25 February - 3 March 2024

Pushing contemporary art conversations forward with a thought-provoking Alserkal Art Week from 25 February to 3 March. Alserkal Avenue’s week-long programme will include over 15 new exhibitions, gallery tours, installations, and curated talks.

Slow Art WalksAligned with ‘alternative ways of being’ and mindfulness, Slow Art Walks invite visitors to take the time to slow down and reflect, not to rush, but to take time to unpack and understand. Materialising the ImaginaryJoin artist-curator Mo Reda on a slow art walk which will encourage participants to focus on the power of the imaginary, the imagination, and the visionary aspects of the artistic process.The Tour will highlight art as a methodology of expressing visions, the imagination, and focus on its ability to act as a bridge between desires and dreams and the material-based tangible surrounding reality. The tour will highlight the power of material selection in terms, texture, dimensions, colours, a methodology which are foundational to materialising and presenting the artistic idea.The walk will also allow participants to reflect on a selected number of works that orbit around the power of the imagination in the art-making process. Overall, the walk is an interactive meeting that invites participants to collectively reflect on an artwork during the walk. Mo Reda is a curator whose research examines the relationship of the individual non- reality versus collective agreements.His curatorial projects include the video installation Turbulent by Shirin Neshat and The Fourth Wall Exhibition, Santa Cruz de la Sierra Biennale, Bolivia (2020); Residual Volumes of Narcissism, Kochi Biennale (2016–2017); The Blue Hour, Santa Cruz de la Sierra Biennale (2016); Trans Indian Ocean Artists Exchange, Kochi Biennale (2016–2017); The Black River Project, Jogja Biennale (2015); Post Oriental Odyssey, The Mine, Dubai (2015); Per/From, a performance art production programme, CAP, Kuwait (2014); Reciprocal, Kiosko Art Space, Bolivia (2013); exhibitions Displacement and Preludes as well as an Artist Leadership Programme, Al Bareh Gallery, Bahrain (2013); Disgraced, Museum Night Delft, the Netherlands (2012); Yet I See the Invisible Borders, Makan Art Space, Jordan (2012); I Am/ The Other, Al Riwaq Art Space, Bahrain (2012). Reda has participated in numerous residencies, including curator-in-residence, Tashkeel (2021–2022); Theertha Art Foundation, Colombo (2020); 1st Shanthi Road Residency, Bengaluru (2019); Langgen Art Foundation, Yogyakarta (2018); and Kochi Biennale Research Residency (2016).He was awarded the Adrie Piek Prize by the HKU Utrecht Academy (2009) and has received funding for several of his projects, including the Trans Indian Ocean Artists Exchange; Residual Volumes of Narcissism and the Artists Leadership Programme at Al Bareh Gallery.Reda earned a BFA from HKU Academy in the Netherlands (2006). Born in 1977 in Kuwait City, he currently lives and works between the Middle East, South and South-East Asia.

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