The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis will present the first major solo-exhibition of Montréal-based artist Hajra Waheed. The presentation will include video, sound installation, drawing, and sculpture to explore themes of unity across borders. Waheed will create a new body of work that will expand and continue her interest in ideas of transnational solidarity, as well as present a diverse array of recent work, including sound, installation, painting, works on paper, and poetry. Waheed’s exhibition at CAM will be her most ambitious to date in terms of scale, materiality, medium, and the complexity of issues it addresses. The exhibition is organized for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis by Wassan Al-Khudhairi.
Hajra Waheed
Hajra Waheed
Hum, 2020
Multi-channel sound installation with custom speaker casings
36 minutes, 17 seconds. Installation view, Portikus, Frakfurt, Germany. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Diana Pfammatter.
Hajra Waheed
Our Naufrage 1-10, 2014
Gouache on masonite, mounted in brass and wood
14 x 17 cm (each). Installation view, 57th Venice Biennale, Viva Arte Viva, Venice, Italy. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Francesco Galli.
Hajra Waheed
The Cyphers 1-18, 2016
Cut photograph, xylene transfer, glass, ink, printed mylar, found objects and archival tape on paper, Dimensions variable.
Hajra Waheed, Video Installation Project 1-10, 2011–2013.
Video, 33 minutes, 14 seconds. Installation view, Hajra Waheed: The Video Installation Project, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Paul Litherland.
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