Art Exhibition for Cities under Quarantine from the Qatar Museums Foundation in Qatar
By: Qatar MuseumsLast update:
Applicant criteria
NationalityNo specific nationality required
Skillsمهارات التواصل, مهارات العرض, الفنون
Age
- No specific age required
Gender
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity FieldMusic, Art and Graphic Design
Job locationQatar
Needed documentsApplication form
Deadline2024-05-04
Opportunity description
Qatar Museums Foundation announces an art exhibition for cities during the quarantine period, which comes within the framework of the Qatar Postal project. This exhibition will display 59 books designed by artists in more than a 12 countries during the pandemic.
Benefits
- Artists' studios, once their refuge, have become a prison during the pandemic, amplifying their sense of things tenfold, whether contemplating, thinking, or creating, which has led to their production of these distinctive artistic contributions.
- The pandemic lockdown period has shown that the book has more power than it actually has, so the director of this artistic initiative contacted friends and fellow artists to invite them to photograph what they were experiencing from within the involuntary isolation situations specific to this period.
- The artists participating in this initiative then chose between an accordion-folded book or a hand-stitched book designed by Reza Abedini to show their situations during isolation.
- Within three weeks, these books were mailed from Beirut to 22 cities, arriving at the home of every artist participating in the initiative.
- Finally, 59 artists from the Middle East and North Africa region responded to express this moment in their own unique way, creating unparalleled contributions to this new reality, each in their own personal way. But with the knowledge they were creating together.
Eligibility criteria
- The exhibition will include powerful documentation of life from the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The exhibition is a declaration that friendships and community building can continue even in a time of isolation.
About Qatar Museums Foundation:
Qatar Museums Foundation is one of Qatar's leading institutions in the field of arts and culture, providing authentic and inspiring cultural experiences through a growing network of museums, heritage sites, festivals, public art installations and programs.
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