Adelita Husni Bey
[De]compositions and [un]severings
In making this selection I was drawn towards practices that spoke to the destabilizing effect of living through the current crisis, its forced isolation, its uneveness, tension and uprisings.
I looked for works that spoke softly yet stirringly, to forms of unity in struggles to recover connections severed by modernity (vis-a-vis borders, ecosystems, institutions), exploding myths through doubles, re-takes, circuits, [de]compositions. Through prop-like objects/ sculptures, delicate fragments often sitting in for others, with loss, stasis, (forced) migration/ integration (into the realm of the audible) at their center. Haunting characters: Mohamed, a clown, worms, the Art Institution guide us through a world that is both theatrical and aware of its theater, as if in the antechamber of an insurrection.
Adelita Husni Bey
Adelita Husni Bey is an artist and pedagogue based in New York. Her work focuses on producing spaces and frameworks for political education, which double as film sets. She represented Italy at the 57th Venice Biennale and is currently teaching at The New School.
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