GALLERIE DELLE PRIGIONI - DEC 6 2019 - FEB 2 2020
Don't Ask Me Where I'm From, is an exhibition dedicated to migration, the fruit of a collaboration between the Fondazione Imago Mundi and the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, an exhibition and research space that is part the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, a philanthropic institution founded by the Aga Khan. Don't Ask Me Where I'm From, curated by Marion Eele (Imago Mundi) and Marianne Fenton (the Aga Khan Museum) brings together the works of a group of first, second and third generation artists, selected by a committee of experts (curators, museum directors, artists). With the privilege and complexity of their first-hand knowledge, these artists engage with the personal and collective migrant experience, willing and able to express entirely new cultural convergences. Art and migration, told - revealed, examined, explored - through contemporary works (paintings, photography, videos, installations) that originate from the biographical experience of each of the 15 artists selected, a precious testament, in life as in art, to the myriad worlds that our world encompasses: traditions, cultures, passions, new ideas, ancient customs and contradictions. Daniela Edburg: Mexico; USA eL Seed: France; Tunisia Elena El Asmar: Italy; Lebanon Erica Kaminishi: Japan; Brazil; France Farihah Aliyah Shah: Canada; Guyana Gui Mohallem: Brazil; Lebanon Jeanno Gaussi: Germany; Afghanistan John Young Zerunge: Australia; China, Hong Kong Houda Terjuman: Morocco; Syria; Switzerland Liberty Battson: South Africa; Zimbabwe Marija Nemčenko: Lithuania; Russia; UK Sarah Maple: UK; India Shinpei Takeda: Mexico; Japan; Germany Sukaina Kubba: Iraq; Canada Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi: USA; South Africa; Turkey