Walid raad biography for kids

Walid Raad’s (born in Chbanieh in 1967, Libanon (RL), lives and works in New York) work represents one of the most consistent art approaches toward questions of history, mass media and the artistic presentation of the Arab world. His work is acute in establishing a critique of multicultural story telling from the perspective of the capitalist first world. His main contribution to the status of contemporary art photography and the moving image is a multi-layered recontextualisation of the discrepancy between fiction and fact in current photography and mass media image productions and between the existential and strategical conditions of contemporary art projects.

Walid Ra’ad’s works include textual analysis, video, performance and photography projects that concentrate on the Lebanese civil wars, the Arab-Israeli conflicts, and documentary theory and practice. His activities also include “The Atlas Group”, a Beirut-based non-profit research foundation wh

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Museum as Preface: Walid Raad’s History of Art in the Arab World

Misrecognitions

Most of the pieces that comprise Scratching revolve around the moment of art’s transmission and reception: the way in which objects and narratives are encountered, passed on, translated, interpreted and represented. Yet, as the tradition these objects were once part of was forcibly interrupted bygd colonial violence, wars and occupation, transmission is far from smooth. All the ‘reception events’ that Raad stages are chronically hemsökt by unexpected alterations, delays, withdrawals, literal blockages, occlusions, mistranslations and inconsistencies. Such imperfect reception typically takes place within the museum walls, a space rife with epistemic fissures, interpretative foreclosures and equivocations. Besides being tethered to the circuits of global capital, as we have seen, museums also embody a sedimentation of professional practices, conceptual habits and cultural dispositions tha

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Walid Raad – We Lived So Well Together

11/02/22—15/05/22

Walid Raad is known for his performances, installations, videos and photographs. His works engage art and its histories, global conflicts, and the Lebanese civil wars with beautiful and highly crafted images and captivating stories. Swiftly and nimbly he spans continents and centuries, exposing the viewer to a maelstrom of images and words, of passed-down traditions and direct experience. He gently leans on historical and/or fictional objects, exposing explicit and implicit forms of violence hidden within. Walid Raad’s artistic approach may be compared to that of a historian and/or archaeologist and/or magician: He somehow penetrates an extensive system of passageways that connect continents, people, acts of war and natural catastrophes. The documents, artefacts and narratives that he creates start off from seemingly personal stories but soon unfurl to connect to matters of global finance, geo-political conflicts, and cou