The exhibiton PRE-EXODUS is comprised of a VR installation and a video work by Solenne Tadros shown at Accelerator Art Space.
Leila Khoury Nimry was thirteen years old when she fled her home in Haifa, Palestine during the Nakba in 1948. In PRE-EXODUS she shares the memories of her childhood bedroom, illustrated and developed into a virtual reality experience, created by her granddaughter, Jordanian artist Solenne Tadros (b. 1996). The work activates questions of memory, intergenerational trauma, forced displacement and the notion of home.
The exhibition opened with an artist talk between Solenne Tadros, Professor of Social Anthropology Shahram Koshravi and Karolina Aastrup which introduced the work and opened up for a conversation on its related themes. The talk was recorded and published as a podcast by Accelerator, listen to it here.
Leila Khoury Nimry was thirteen years old when she fled her home in Haifa, Palestine during the Nakba in 1948. In PRE-EXODUS she shares the memories of her childhood bedroom, illustrated and developed into a virtual reality experience, created by her granddaughter, Jordanian artist Solenne Tadros (b. 1996). The work activates questions of memory, intergenerational trauma, forced displacement and the notion of home.
The exhibition opened with an artist talk between Solenne Tadros, Professor of Social Anthropology Shahram Koshravi and Karolina Aastrup which introduced the work and opened up for a conversation on its related themes. The talk was recorded and published as a podcast by Accelerator, listen to it here.
The exhibition and public program was part of Karolina Aastrup’s graduation project at the international MA programme Curating Art at Stockholm University. The mixed reality (MR) installation built on research made by the curator in her MA thesis “Searching for Art in XR: Situated Disruption as Curatorial Practice”.
Images courtesy of Solenne Tadros and Leila Khory Nimry. Installation photos by Ellinor Hall.
Images courtesy of Solenne Tadros and Leila Khory Nimry. Installation photos by Ellinor Hall.
