Synopses & Reviews
Pars Pro Toto III is the result of a close dialog between Egyptian-German artist Susan Hefuna and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist. The focus in this book is on Hefunas complex work groups on site-specific and architectural installations, video works and choreographies. Hefuna uses urban spaces and cities like Cairo, London, Istanbul, Sharjah, Sydney, New York, and Vienna as her laboratory. The artist interacts with dancers, communities, urban and human structures in both personal and political ways. Pars Pro Toto III also features a foreword by Hans Ulrich Obrist, an interview with the Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi, as well as texts by the Lebanese-American artist and poet Etel Adnan, by Negar Azimi, Senior Editor of BidounMagazine, and by Brett Littman, director of the Drawing
Center, NYC
Synopsis
Third and final part of a long-term project by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist with artist Susan Hefuna.
Synopsis
For the past twenty-five years German Egyptian artist Susan Hefuna has been creating drawings, sculptures, installations, and video performances which focus on cross-cultural codes and the personal experiences of living within different cultures. This third volume in the Pars Pro Toto long time project between Hefuna and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist focuses on her architectural/urban and side specific works and interventions in Cairo, Vienna, London, and New York.
Susan Hefuna has exhibited her work internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions including ayRhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; Museum of Modern Art, New York; New Museum, New York; Albion Gallery, New York; and Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York.
About the Author
Susan Hefuna (b. 1962, Germany) takes up everyday aspects of life in her work, exploring the indeterminacy of location and identity and her negotiation of her own identity through photography, video, drawing, sculpture, and digital media. Much of Hefunas work is informed by her dual heritage (GermanEgyptian), and often features striking images of family, interior spaces, and cityscapes in and around Cairo. Susan Hefunas works were exhibited internationally at institutions such as Venice Biennale; Sharjah Biennale; Sydney Biennale; Seville Biennale; MoMA and Drawing Center New York; Louvre, Paris; House of World Cultures, Berlin; Townhouse Gallery Cairo; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; Drawing Center, New York; PiArtworks, Istanbul / London; Rose Issa Projects, London.
Hans Ulrich Obrist (Zurich, Switzerland, 1968) is a Swiss curator and art critic. In 1993, he founded the Museum Robert Walser and was curator for contemporary art at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. He presently serves as the Co-Director, Exhibitions and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London.
Negar Azimi is senior editor at Bidoun, an arts and culture magazine based in New York.
Etel Adnan (b. 24 February 1925 in Beirut) is a Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist.
Nawal El Saadawi (born 1931) is an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician and psychiatrist. She has written many books on the subject of women in Islam, paying particular attention to the practice of female genital cutting in her society.
Brett Littman (B.A., Philosophy, UC San Diego) is currently the Executive Director of The Drawing Center, based in New York.