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Bouchra Khalili / Stories Within Stories
On Saturday 16 October, Bildmuseet opens a solo exhibition with French-Moroccan artist Bouchra Khalili. Media are welcome to a preview of Stories Within Stories on Thursday 14 October: digitally and on-site at Bildmuseet.
The speech act is central to the work of Bouchra Khalili. In front of her camera, members of minorities who are excluded from citizenry talk about their own experiences, about both historical and current events, about what they themselves have been involved in or what they have witnessed. The works in the exhibition Stories Within Stories encompass a diverse range of stories about citizenship, new forms of civic imagination, resistance, solidarity and collective emancipation.
In filmic practice Khalili combines the many different micro-narratives with photographs, moving image, animations, and sounds, from multiple sources and eras, into a multifaceted whole. The exhibition, which is produced by Bildmuseet, also reflects her interest in grassroots’ media and how speech, typography, poetry and street theatre have amplified voices that would not otherwise be heard.
Bouchra Khalili (b. 1975, Casablanca, Morocco) is a French-Moroccan artist based in Berlin, Germany. Khalili works most notably in film, photography, installation and publications. She has had solo exhibitions at MoMA, New York City; MACBA, Barcelona; Jeu de Paume, Paris, and Secession, Vienna, and participated in international festivals such as the Venice Biennale, Documenta, the Sharjah Biennale and the Sydney Biennale. Khalili is Professor and Head of Artistic Strategies studies at die Angewandte University, Vienna, and she is one of the founders of the Moroccan artist-run organisation La Cinémathèque de Tangier.
Bouchra Khalili / Stories Within Stories is produced by Bildmuseet and runs until 6 March 2022. With support from the Institut français de Suède.
Press images
Press images are available at Bildmuseet's website (E-mail for password).
Press preview on Thursday 14 October
At 10:00, the exhibition will be presented digitally via this link by curator Sofia Johanssson, followed by a conversation with the artist Bouchra Khalili (E-mail for password). From 11:00 to 14:00, the exhibition is open to journalists on site in Umeå. If you are based somewhere else in the world, you are welcome to book a personal tour via zoom during the afternoon. Interviews via link with the artist can be booked no later than Monday 11 October. Welcome to send your requests via e-mail to press.bildmuseet@umu.se.
Opening on Saturday 16 October
The doors open to the exhibition Stories Within Stories at Bildmuseet. The opening event takes place at 14:00, in a digital form: Bouchra Khalili presents her exhibition in a digital conversation with Sofia Johansson.
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