Press Kit (August 30th/31st, 2012) - Goldmann Public Relations ...

NEWTOPIA: The State of Human Rights
Contemporary Arts Exhibition in Mechelen and Brussels
01.09. – 10.12.2012
Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and National Museum
of Women in the Arts, Washington (2007/8); Fast Time Slow Bodies, MoCA,
Tapei (2007); Faith in Exposure, Netherlands Media Art Institute,
Amsterdam (2007); Tecnologia e informatica, 42 nd Venice Biennale (1986).
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WAFA HOURANI was born in 1979 in Hebron, Palestine. He lives and
works in Ramallah, Palestine.
Deeply marked by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the future of the
Middle East, Wafa Hourani makes photos and sculptures that reveal the
social, political and economical context of life in Palestine and the plight of
the Palestinian people. A graduate of the school of Art and Cinema in Tunis,
he first directed films before shifting to a visual production in 2006.
According to him, this is a more suited format to express the Palestinian
question. Using photography and sculpture, he has been creating
environments revealing a reality in which past and future are intrinsically
linked.
Hourani’s work has been shown at: La Route de la Soie, Tri Postal, Lille;
The future of tradition – the tradition of future, Haus der Kunst, Munich
(2010); the 11 th Istanbul Biennial (2009); Disorientation II, Abu Dhabi Art,
Abu Dhabi (2009); Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East, Saatchi Gallery,
London (2008); 1 st Thessaloniki Biennial (2007).
SATCH HOYT was born in 1957 in London, England. He lives and works in
Berlin, Germany.
The work of Satch Hoyt consists of sculptures, installations, paintings and
drawings. It is characterized by a dual and complementary reflection on the
African Diaspora and its manifold consequences. Drawing deeply on his
background as an accomplished professional musician/composer, Satch
Hoyt has made sound and musicality a base chord of his visual practice.
Several of his sculptures and installations contain a sound and/or musical
element combined with a narrative that often references black history and
seminal black public figures in sport, politics and music.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Tailspinner, Nomad Gallery, Brussels
(2011); Rhythm and Rhyme, Galerie Steinek, Vienna (2008); For Love of
Sugar, St. Paul's Cathedral, London (2007); Satch Hoyt, Galerie Lucette
Herzog, Paris (2007). Recent group exhibitions include: Thrown Together,
Nomad Gallery, Brussels (2012); The Record Touring, Institute of
Contemporary Art, Boston (2011); Hors Pistes, Centre Pompidou, Paris
(2011); Nomadic Settlers, Bethanien, Berlin (2011); The Art Is A Combat
Sport, Museum of Fine Arts, Calais (2011); The Record: Contemporary Art
and Vinyl, Nasher Museum of Art, Raleigh (2010); The Global Africa
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