The Crossing and Other Tales, Shimon Attie's Immersive Media Installations

The Crossing and Other Tales, Shimon Attie's Immersive Media Installations

 October 25th - 30th, 2022 (Tuesday - Friday, 10am - 4pm, Saturday 1-4 and Sunday 12-4) 

Art & Media Lab, Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts 

Opening Reception: October 28th, 4pm - 6pm, Art & Media Lab 

The Crossing and Other Tales features two of Shimon Attie’s immersive single-channel video installations, a multidisciplinary artist who creates site-specific installations in public places, as well as mixed media installations for museums and galleries. Highlighting the survival stories of refugees who have suffered trauma and violence, his installations give visual form to invisible, forgotten, or erased histories and/or communities.

Concerned with questions of memory, place, and identity, Attie employs video, photography, sculpture, and highly collaborative processes with local communities to realize his projects. His work re-imagines new relationships between space, time, place, and identity, and explores how contemporary art practice can inflect and re-interpret social and political history, personal and communal identity, and more broadly, human memory and the imagination.

Attie’s work has been shown at and collected by The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, among many others. He has received fellowships from the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Academy in Rome, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation and The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. He has also received the Lee Krasner Award and was inducted into the National Academy of Design in 2018.

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