Adelita Husni-Bey (born 1985) is an Italian-Libyan visual artist.[1] She made the film Postcards from the Desert Island (2011).[2][3][4] She was awarded the 2023 Black Mountain College prize.[5] Husni-Bey was also a 2020-2022 fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics.[6] Her work is in the collections of MoMA[1] and the Whitney Museum.[7] She was chosen to represent Italy at the 2017 Venice Biennale.[8]
Adelita Husni-Bey | |
|---|---|
| Born | Adelita Husni-Bey |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Years active | 2006 |
| Known for | Visual arts |
Work
editHusni-Bey's work is rooted in anarcho-collectivist practices.[9] It is often the result of long form collaborations and educational workshops, which result in video or photographs documenting the process.[1][9] The subject matter focuses on systemic problems and the role of the law.[10]
White Paper
editThe work White Paper (2014 - ongoing) consists of an ongoing research into the relationship between the notion of property, legislation, and the right to housing under capitalism. It focuses on three countries: Egypt, The Netherlands and Spain. The first chapter White Paper: The Land (2014) was presented in Cairo at Beirut (art space). It consists of a video-installation focused on the land rights of people affected by the mega-urban development Cairo 2050,[11][12] a government-backed and privately funded metropolitan development plan of massive proportions, which threatens the livelihood of many informal settlements such as the neighbourhood of Gezirat al-Qursaya and Ramlet Boulaq. The second chapter White Paper: The Law (2015) was supported by Casco (Utrecht) and it resulted in a legal document, the Convention on the Use of Space.[13] The document was written through a series of public drafting meetings across the Netherlands in collaboration with squatters, lawyers, housing rights activists, tenants associations and the general public. For the last chapter of the project White Paper: The Imaginery (2016) the Convention travelled to Spain, to Móstoles neighbourhood in Madrid and it was hosted by CA2M. The project was carried on in various independent spaces and squatted social centres, where a number of public meetings were held to draw up the Spanish version of the text. The project is documented by a book, White Paper On Land, law And The Imaginary[14] edited by Antonia Alampi, Binna Choi, Jens Maier-Rothe, Pablo Martínez.
The Reading / La Seduta,[15] was presented at the Italian Pavilion, curated by Cecilia Alemani, at the 2017 Venice Biennale.
Exhibitions
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Adelita Husni-Bey | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
- ^ "Postcards from the Desert Island by Adelita Husni Bey at the Kadist Foundation, Paris". www.kadist.org/paris/. 16 July 2014. Archived from the original on 2015-07-12. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
- ^ "Postcards from the Desert Island by Adelita Husni Bey at Gasworks, London". www.gasworks.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2018-02-26. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
- ^ Magagnoli, Paolo (13 April 2013). "Adelita Husni Bey by Paolo Magagnoli". Frieze (154). Archived from the original on 2018-02-25. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
- ^ Center, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts (2023-07-13). "Second Annual Black Mountain College Prize Awarded to Adelita Husni-Bey". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
- ^ "Adelita Husni Bey | Vera List Center". Adelita Husni Bey | Vera List Center. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
- ^ "Adelita Husni-Bey | After the Finish Line". whitney.org. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
- ^ Greenberger, Alex (2016-11-15). "Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Roberto Cuoghi, Adelita Husni-Bey Will Represent Italy at the 2017 Venice Biennale". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
- ^ a b "BOMB Magazine | Adelita Husni Bey". BOMB Magazine. 2023-04-03. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
- ^ Stapley-Brown, Victoria (2019-01-22). "Adelita Husni-Bey on traumatised lawyers and undocumented immigrants". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
- ^ "Cairo 2050". www.cairofrombelow.org. 18 August 2011. Archived from the original on 2018-02-26. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
- ^ Reeve, Christopher (2011-07-29). "What ever happened to Cairo 2050?". www.egyptindependent.com. Archived from the original on 2018-02-27. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
- ^ Traganou, Jilly (2016). Designing the Olympics. Representation, Participation, Contestation. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415874908.
- ^ Alampi, Antonia (2017). White Paper: On Land, Law and the Imaginery. Amsterdam: Valiz. ISBN 9789492095275.
- ^ Alemani, Cecilia (2017). Il mondo magico/The magical world. Milano: Marsilio. ISBN 9788831727204.
- ^ "Adelita Husni-Bey: Chiron". www.newmuseum.org. Archived from the original on 2019-11-16. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ^ Editorial, Staff (2016-12-03). "Adelita Husni-Bey: Movement Break". Mousse Magazine. Archived from the original on 2018-03-01. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
- ^ Saviotti, Alessandra (2016-02-04). "Movement Break: Adelita Husni-Bey investigates sport as a metaphor of life's endless performance". Droste Effect. Archived from the original on 2018-02-28. Retrieved 2018-02-28.