Al-Badry will be in conversation with Benjamin L. Jones about the exhibition and his artistic process. 

Wesaam Al-Badry is an investigative, multimedia journalist and interdisciplinary artist working with themes related to refugees, labor, migration, war, and technology. His approach tophotography is informed by his own childhood experience as a refugee. Al-Badry and his family fled the war in Iraq in 1991 and, after four and a half years in arefugee camp in Saudi Arabia, were eventually relocated to Lincoln, Nebraska. Al-Badry’s photographs from this ongoing project have appeared in the New YorkTimes, the Atlantic, Rolling Stone, MotherJones, and The Nation. 

Benjamin L. Jones researches the speculative analysis and praxis of oppressed people. He is a Ph.D. Candidatein Northwestern University’s Department of Art History, with an interdisciplinary cluster certificate in Critical Theory. His art-historical interests include contemporary intersections of art and power, futurism, and Black radical visual culture and performance. 

*This event will also be streamed live on the Jenkins Johnson Gallery’s Instagram(@jenkinsjohnsongallery).