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Catharine Clark Gallery in collaboration with Minnesota Street Project
Zeina Barakeh (b. Beirut) is a Palestinian-Lebanese artist whose work is influenced by her upbringing amidst numerous conflicts in Lebanon. While her artwork broadly engages with the discourse of war, her research delves into military emerging technologies, the blurred boundaries between humans and machines, and the evolving nature of warfare, encompassing kinetic and cyberwarfare.
Barakeh is a recent recipient of an Artadia Award (2024) and a three-person exhibition at the Schneider Museum titled “What’s at Stake.” In the announcement for the Artadia award, co-jurors Ileana Tejada, Senior Manager, Fellowships and Programs, Headlands Center for the Arts and Laura Phipps, Associate Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, write: “Barakeh offers deeply considered visual amalgamations of historic categories—of art, of war, of geopolitics and economies—that compels one to consider our position in the contemporary moment. In her recent installations and projects, Barakeh shows an incredible sensitivity to site-specificity and interest in pushing on the understanding of the connections between exterior conditions and interior trauma.”
Barakeh’s presentation at Minnesota Street Project is presented simultaneously to The Gardens of Maladies (2021 – 2024), on view at Catharine Clark Gallery through September 14, 2024. Barakeh’s animation, which meanders between abstraction and representation, explores themes of mental and physical illness and human enhancement, referencing Hieronymus Bosch’s "The Garden of Earthly Delights".