Contemplate the power of nonconformity and your own potential for action at Clapping with Stones: Art and Acts of Resistance. Using the Rubin’s circular architecture to create an immersive site-specific display, the exhibition examines social, cultural, and political events through a local and global lens, offering unique perspectives from 10 contemporary artists living and working in the United States and internationally—all of whom are grouped together for the first time in this constellation.
Featuring works in a range of sizes and media, including photography, sculpture, video, textile, and installation, Clapping with Stones articulates a wide variety of societal and political themes while making an open-ended call to action.
Artists in the exhibition include:
Lida Abdul (b. 1973, Kabul, Afghanistan; lives and works in Kabul and Los Angeles)
Kader Attia (b. 1970, Paris, France; lives and works in Berlin)
Nadia Kaabi-Linke (b.1978, Tunis, Tunisia; lives and works in Berlin)
Naiza Khan (b. 1968, Pakistan; lives and works in London and Karachi)
Kimsooja (b. 1957, Daegu, South Korea; lives and works in New York and Seoul)
Pallavi Paul (b.1986, New Delhi, India; lives and works in New Delhi)
Shahpour Pouyan (b. 1979, Isfahan, Iran; lives and works in New York)
Ibrahim Quraishi (b. 1973, Nairobi, Kenya; lives and works in Amsterdam and Berlin)
Nari Ward (b. 1963, St. Andrew, Jamaica; lives and works in New York)
Hank Willis Thomas (b. 1976, Plainfield, New Jersey; lives and works in New York)
Sara Raza is a writer and curator specializing in contemporary global arts. In 2016, she won the ArtTable New Leadership Award for Women. She was the Guggenheim UBS MAP curator for the Middle East and North Africa, and she curated But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2016), which travelled to the Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan (2018).
The exhibition is produced by the Rubin Museum of Art.
Clapping with Stones: Art and Acts of Resistance is supported by Rasika and Girish Reddy, the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, anonymous, Basha Frost Rubin and Scott Grinsell, Akhoury Foundation, Preethi Krishna and Ram Sundaram, and Sonny and Gita Mehta.
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