Exhibiton
Susan Hefuna
ToGather
The Whitworth
The University of Manchester
30 June - 3 September 2017
Born in Berlin in 1962, Susan Hefuna grew up in Egypt, Germany, and Austria. In 1992, she completed a postgraduate degree in multimedia at the Institut für Neue Medien, Städelschule, Frankfurt, where she studied under artist, curator, and theoretician Peter Weibel.
In drawings, installations, performances, photographs, sculptures, and videos, Hefuna draws on her mixed heritage to ponder the intersection of location and identity. She aims at a spiritual, open-ended, and timeless art that also illuminates current sociopolitical issues.
In drawings, installations, performances, photographs, sculptures, and videos, Hefuna draws on her mixed heritage to ponder the intersection of location and identity. She aims at a spiritual, open-ended, and timeless art that also illuminates current sociopolitical issues.
Hefuna’s works often incorporate the form or image of the characteristically Mashrabiya, a carved wood or stone architectural latticework screen, which she uses to investigate aesthetic tradition, national custom, and the exchanged gaze.
Softcover
28 x 24.5 cm
51 pages
colour illustration
Susan Hefuna, ToGather I Book
£ 15.00
