{"id":18046,"date":"2024-02-12T20:29:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T01:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/?p=18046"},"modified":"2024-04-15T11:12:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T15:12:00","slug":"asad-raza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/asad-raza\/","title":{"rendered":"Asad Raza"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Asad Raza (born in Buffalo, USA) creates dialogues and rejects disciplinary boundaries in his work, which conceives of art as a metabolic, active experience. <\/span>Diversion<\/span><\/i><\/a>, first shown at Kunsthalle Portikus in 2022, diverted a river through the gallery. <\/span>Absorption<\/span><\/i>, in which cultivators create artificial soil, was the 34th Kaldor Public Art Project in Sydney (2019), later shown at the Gropius Bau, Berlin (2020) and Ruhrtriennale (2021). In <\/span>Untitled (plot for dialogue)<\/span><\/i> (2017), visitors played tennis in a sixteenth-century church in Milan. Root sequence. Mother tongue, at the 2017 Whitney Biennial, combines twenty-six trees, caretakers and objects. Schema for a school was an experimental school at the 2015 Ljubljana Graphic Art Biennial. Raza premiered the feature <\/span>Minor History<\/span><\/i> at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2019). Other projects take intimate settings: <\/span>The Bedroom<\/span><\/i> at the 2018 Lahore Biennale; <\/span>Home Show<\/span><\/i> (2015) at his apartment in New York, where Raza asked artists to intervene in his life; and <\/span>Life to come<\/span><\/i> (2019) at Metro Pictures, featuring participatory works and Shaker dance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With Hans Ulrich Obrist, Raza curates exhibitions inspired by \u00c9douard Glissant, including <\/span>Mondialit\u00e9<\/span><\/i> (Villa Empain, Brussels), <\/span>Trembling Thinking<\/span><\/i> (Americas Society, New York), <\/span>Where the Oceans Meet<\/span><\/i> (MDC Museum of Art and Design, Miami), and <\/span>This language which is every stone<\/span><\/i> (IMA, Brisbane). Raza will serve as Artistic Director of the upcoming FRONT 2025: Cleveland Triennial of Contemporary Art. Of Pakistani background, Raza studied literature and filmmaking at Johns Hopkins and NYU.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Still from Ge, Asad Raza, 2020. Commissioned for The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: The Understory of the Understory, Serpentine Galleries.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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