The Unmarked Body.
Rachel curated The Unmarked Body exhibition programme, which ran at Art Cube Artists’ Studios and featured in Jerusalem’s contemporary art festival, Manofim, 2018 to 2019. Commissioned by Quilliam, the show presented work by four women and non-binary Palestinian Israeli artists. An intersectional approach to contested subject matter underpinned the curation of performance, installation, sculpture, photography and film. The Unmarked Body aimed to complicate binary notions of identity, expressing through a formal continuity of hanging, site-specific artworks the idea of a musical suspension, or unresolved dissonance. An exhibition catalogue was translated in English, Arabic and Hebrew.
Find further information in an interview Rachel gave with the Jerusalem Post.
Rachel co-curated with Harry Seymour The unbreakable rope exhibition programme, including works by 10 international artists exploring sexuality in Islam. The show was commissioned by Quilliam and presented at Free Word in 2016. Taking its name from an eighth-century erotic Arabic poem, it sought to highlight a legacy of diverse sexuality and non-heteronormative identity in Islamic culture through the ages. Alongside the show, Rachel curated a panel of drag queens, authors and activists to discuss creative modes of resistance against prejudice. See the exhibition catalogue here.
Logo by Faiza Butt.
Images credits:
Installation View. Hannan Abu Hussein, "Untitled", 2018, Concrete and steel of varying dimensions, Photo: Kira Kalatsky
Installation View. Maiada Aboud, "Untitled", 2018, Apples, Varnish and Fishing Line, Variable Dimensions, Photo: Kira Klatzky
Installation View. Maiada Aboud. Right: "Untitled", 2017, photograph, 50 × 35 cm. Left: "Untitled", 2011, photograph, 40 × 28 cm, Photo: Kira Klatzky
Installation View. Raafat Hattab, “Luna-Sola”, 2018, Cast and Hair Casting, Variable Dimensions, Photo: Kira Klatzky
Installation View. Raafat Hatab, "Houria", 2010, Video, 55:6 minutes, Photo: Kira Klatzky
Installation View. Hannan Abu Hussein, "The Eye of the Needle," 2014, Needles and Sewing Thread, Variable Dimensions, Photo: Kira Klatzky
Maiada Aboud, Endurance Performance, Photo: Dor Kadmi
Raida Adon, "Woman Without a Home", 2014, Video, 30 Minutes, Photo: Kira Klatzky
All images © the Artists