Conversations | Farah Al Qasimi | Art Basel Awards

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Farah Al Qasimi, artist, New York and Abu Dhabi&nbsp; Stuart Comer, The Lonti Ebers Chief Curator of Media and Performance, The Museum of Modern Art, New York In this new series of talks, ‘One-on-ones’, artists and creatives shortlisted for the Art Basel Awards are invited to the Conversations stage for a dynamic deep dive into their work, recent projects, and journeys to this point. Photographer, filmmaker, and musician Farah Al Qasimi, nominated in the Emerging Artist category, speaks to Stuart Comer, the chief curator of media and performance at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, who is nominated in the Curator category.&nbsp; Farah Al Qasimi makes photographs, films, and music. Often working with large-scale vinyl imagery and a multiplicity of photographic prints and screens, she is interested in the internet and its hierarchies of information and emotion. Many of her video works include primary narrators who are anthropomorphized. Through a highly collaborative practice, she has worked with hand-sewn puppets, falcons, African land snails, exorcists, and most recently, a Jack Sparrow impersonator. Stuart Comer is the Lonti Ebers Chief Curator of Media and Performance at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. In addition to directing the collection, exhibitions, and programs of the Department of Media and Performance, he steers the museum’s contemporary collection galleries, leads the Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio, and chairs the Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP) Southeast Asia research group. Comer previously served as the first curator of film at Tate Modern, London, and co-curated the 2014 Whitney Biennial.&nbsp;

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