At CAM, Farid presents the video installation At the Time of the Ebb (2019), a poetic meandering through Nowruz Sayadeen, the Fisherman’s New Year festival in Qeshm, a vast island in the Persian Gulf at the mouth of Iran. Alia Farid: a solo exhibition is co-produced with Kunstinstitut Melly, Rotterdam. The exhibition is organized for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis by Misa Jeffereis, Assistant Curator.
Alia Farid, At the Time of the Ebb, 2019. Still © Alia Farid
“A constellation of the most relevant art and ideas of our time, our 2022 exhibition will be the Biennial’s eightieth edition.” Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept is co-organized by David Breslin, DeMartini Family Curator and Director of Curatorial Initiatives, and Adrienne Edwards, Engell Speyer Family Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, with Gabriel Almeida Baroja, Curatorial Project Assistant, and Margaret Kross, former Senior Curatorial Assistant.
Alia Farid, Chibayish, 2022. video still. © Alia Farid