Jumana Manna: Break, Take, Erase, Tally
Exhibition
7 March – 25 August 2024
Jumana Manna. Photo: Mariam Mekiwi
Join us on June 6 at 6:30pm for a conversation with artist Jumana Manna and Kunsthall Stavanger Interim Curator Heather Jones.
Manna's exhibition Break, Take, Erase, Tally is currently on view at Kunsthall Stavanger through August 25. This major exhibition charts the artist’s multidisciplinary practice, which explores the paradoxical effects of preservation practices in agriculture, science, and the law. The exhibition at Kunsthall Stavanger brings together for the first time in Norway nearly 20 works including two recent films and a series of new and existing sculptures.
The conversation will touch on each artwork which represent key projects in the artist's career, with a special focus on her newest film Foragers (2022).
We encourage visitors to come for a screening of the film at 17:10, and stay for the conversation.
The event is free an open to the public.
The conversation will be conducted in English.
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.