A Territory of Resistance Exhibition at The Running Horse

The Running Horse is pleased to invite you to the opening of “A Territory of Resistance”, a group exhibition by George Awde, Ali Cherri, Sirine Fattouh, Randa Mirza and Stephanie Saade.

The idea for the exhibition came about during a conversation with artist Sirine Fattouh on two of her videos, Love Talk 1 and Love Talk 2 (2009), in which two professional weight lifters share their perceptions of themselves and their thoughts on how others perceive them. A discussion ensued on the notion of the body in its corporeality and socio-cultural construction. What aspect of the body is represented in contemporary visual practices? Is it the subject or the object of these practices? How do these practices mediate the corporal and cultural construction of the body? As the body moves from the personal to the social and political body, the agency of power becomes ever more pervasive and identities ever more elusive.

The artists and works selected for this exhibition offer a timely reconsideration of the body-social relationships.Through various visual media, these artists use the body as the “site on which discourses are enacted and where they are contested.