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Tamara Al-Mashouk
Tamara Al-Mashouk is a London-based Saudi-Palestinian artist and organizer. Through multi-channel video, performance, and architectural installation, her work examines the displacement of people both on an intimate and global scale, and negotiates the relationship between home, identity, trauma, memory and collective histories. As a socially engaged practitioner, Al-Mashouk investigates the fracture as a site of possibility and expands epigenetics beyond the body into place and matter
Her work addresses the intersections of personal histories, global migratory narratives, and identity. Rooted in anti-racist, de-colonial, and anti-imperialist frameworks she engages with notions of home, belonging, memory, trauma, and healing. The work is positioned in response to Eurocentric, orientalist, and colonial/neo-colonial gazes that seek to control, exoticize, vilify, and oversimplify Arab bodies and stories.
Al-Mashouk has exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Yuan Museum, Beijing, Today Is Our Tomorrow festival, Helsinki, and Fábrica de Arte Cubano, Havana. In her curatorial capacity, centering topics of anti-racism, decolonization, and social justice, she has produced a short film and organized cultural programs, gatherings, and dialogues in a range of institutional and independent contexts, such as Arab Women Artists Now, Tate Britain, and public venues in Hackney Wick, London. From 2018 – 2019, Al-Mashouk was a Research Fellow at the the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research, Boston, and in 2019, she received a traveling fellowship from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SFMA), Tufts University, Boston. In 2021 she received the Stevens Fellowship from Wellesley College from whom she holds a BA in architecture, she has an MFA from SFMA.
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York Mediale 2018
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