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Walid Raad

Exhibition

The Biography of Things

An exhibition that explores works where artists use objects, archives and collections to trace the labyrinthine stories that live behind things.

Publication

The Biography of Things

...of Things which features work by Brook Andrew, Ilit Azoulay, Aurélien Froment, Camille Henrot, Narelle Jubelin, Nicholas Mangan, Rosalind Nashashibi & Lucy Skaer, Kirsten Pieroth, Walid Raad and Paul Sietsema...
Product

The Biography of Things catalogue

...of Things which features work by Brook Andrew, Ilit Azoulay, Aurélien Froment, Camille Henrot, Narelle Jubelin, Nicholas Mangan, Rosalind Nashashibi & Lucy Skaer, Kirsten Pieroth, Walid Raad and Paul Sietsema...
Press Release

The Biography of Things

...tiny fragments of large histories with great exactness.  Renowned Lebanese-born artist Walid Raad’s Preface to the Fifth edition, a series initiated by the Louvre, Paris, in 2014 for their new Islamic Art spaces. Since the late 1980s, Raad has been...
ACCA acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woiwurrung people as sovereign custodians of the land on which we work and welcome visitors, along with the neighbouring Boonwurrung, Bunurong, and wider Kulin Nation. We acknowledge their longstanding and continuing care for Country and we recognise First Peoples art and cultural practice has been thriving here for millennia. We extend our respect to ancestors and Elders past and present, and to all First Nations people.
Glimpse into the archive—

We are all flesh included a selection of sculptures made using wax, wood, wool, horse skin and hair.

Berlinde de Bruyckere:
We Are All Flesh (2012)

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