Ending a Trilogy, Artist Meriem Bennani Contemplates What Liberation Means for an Imagined Place
The artist is currently showing her latest video in her acclaimed CAPS series at the Renaissance Society in Chicago.
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The Robotic Heart of Freedom
Meriem Bennani's show elaborates her sci-fi narrative of refugees who turn a detention center into their home.
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Meriem Bennani on Teleporting Across Borders
I started to speculate about illegal teleportation. I figured it would cause a border crisis in the United States and Europe. Governments would be even more protective. I imagined an island in the…
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Talking Houses, Wet Photographs, and White Noise: A Few Highlights from the 2019 Whitney Biennial
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Meriem Bennani Wins $32,900 EYE Art & Film Prize
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‘Sticky Fingers’ at Arsenal Contemporary, New York
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The Body Politic: A Conversation with Elizabeth Jaeger
In the last few years, Elizabeth Jaeger has moved away from figuration to more stylized sculptural forms that only suggest the female body, thus literalizing objectification in order to subvert misogy…
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“Commercial Break”
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