Jumana Manna: Break, Take, Erase, Tally
Exhibition
7 March – 25 August 2024
Welcome to a guided tour of the exhibition Jumana Manna: Break, Take, Erase, Tally with Kunsthall Stavanger interim curator Heather Jones.
This major exhibition charts the artist’s multidisciplinary practice, which explores the paradoxical effects of preservation practices in agriculture, science, and the law. Break, Take, Erase, Tally at Kunsthall Stavanger includes film and sculpture installations that together question “not whether to preserve, but who gets to decide what lives on and how.”
The tour is free with the price of admission.
The tour will last approximately 30 min. with additional time for questions and discussion.
The tour will be conducted in English.
Jumana Manna: Break, Take, Erase, Tally is organized in partnership with MoMA PS1, New York.
Jumana Manna
Jumana Manna is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her work explores how power is articulated, focusing on the body, land and materiality in relation to colonial inheritances and histories of place. Through sculpture, filmmaking, and occasional writing, Manna deals with the paradoxes of preservation practices, particularly within the fields of archaeology, agriculture and law. Her practice considers the tension between the modernist traditions of categorisation and conservation and the unruly potential of ruination as an integral part of life and its regeneration. Jumana was raised in Jerusalem and lives in Berlin.