Your Ghosts Are Mine: Expanded Cinemas, Amplified Voices Exhibition
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art presents Your Ghosts Are Mine: Expanded Cinemas, Amplified Voices, an exhibition featuring works by more than 40 filmmakers and artists from the Arab world, Africa, and Southeast Asia. In 2024, it premiered to great acclaim at ACP-Palazzo Franchetti in Venice to coincide with the 60th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale.
Comprising of seven galleries divided into ten immersive sections, each one is dedicated to themes such as deserts (i.e., cradles of civilisation and places of rebirth), ruins (i.e., relics of culture), borders (i.e., demarcations between allowed and forbidden places), and cosmos (i.e., exploration of the last frontier).
The films and video works span genres including fiction, documentary, animation, and memoir, often blending fantasy with fact, modernity with tradition, spirituality with postcolonial sensibilities.
Through the development of film and video collections, Mathaf, dedicated to modern and contemporary art from the Arab world, and the Art Mill Museum, Qatar's future museum of international modern and contemporary art, are proposing a new approach to the various forms of cinema, from feature film to video art, in order to fully include them in the writing of a global art history.
Museum Hours:
Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday: 9 am – 7 pm
Monday: Closed
Thursday: 9 am – 9 pm
Friday: 1:30 pm - 7 pm
Source: Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
Note: The details mentioned in this event listing are sourced from the organizers' official announcements and are subject to change. Please check with the organizer directly before making plans.
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