Artist's Rooms: Lawrence Abu Hamdan لورينس أبو همدان / Abu Hamdan, Lawrence

This bilingual publication features a text by Skye Arundhati Thomas*, exploring Abu Hamdan’s practice and ways in which the artist tackled issues around borders, surveillance and displacement. --------------Drawn largely from the Art Jameel Collection, Artist’s Rooms is a series of solo exhibitions by influential, innovative artists, with particular focus on practitioners from the Middle East, Asia and Africa. These capsule shows are collaborative and curated in dialogue with the artist. ------------- *The essay by Skye Arundhati Thomas was first published in the exhibition catalogue Lawrence Abu Hamdan: The Voice Before The Law, ed. Ina Dinter (Cologne: Wienand Verlag, 2019), 24-28. ‘The Voice Before the Law’ was presented at Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof—Museum für Gegenwart—Berlin from October 26, 2019, to February 9, 2020. -------------- About the Artist: Lawrence Abu Hamdan is a ‘Private Ear.’ His interest with sound and its intersection with politics originate from his background as a touring musician and facilitator of DIY music. The artist’s audio investigations have been used as evidence at the UK Asylum and Immigration Tribunal and as advocacy for organisations such as Amnesty International and Defence for Children International together with fellow researchers from Forensic Architecture.

English; Arabic