Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

1 week ago | 4columns.org | Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Hold Everything Dear Kaelen Wilson-Goldie A new reissue of John Berger’s post–September 11 writings on art and activism.

2 months ago | aperture.org | Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

“When I left Syria, I lost all of my images from my phone,” said Sara Kontar, a photographer and filmmaker, speaking to me last month from Paris, where she has lived since 2016. An architecture student who had abruptly dropped her studies, Kontar arrived in France from Damascus via Turkey when she was nineteen years old. “During the journey, I was in Turkey, and I spoke to my father,” Kontar said. “He had gone through something similar.” Decades earlier, Kontar’s father had left Syria and returned.

Aug 22, 2024 | aperture.org | Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

This article originally appeared in Aperture, Winter 2023, “Desire,” under the column Dispatches. Tanya Traboulsi is an ardent observer of the Lebanese coastline. Her photographs probe the ways in which clay tennis courts and fake grass playing fields are tucked into the hills sliding down to the sea in Ras Beirut, on the western side of the city’s promontory. She is also a dedicated student of vernacular architecture.

Aug 16, 2024 | frieze.com | Sophia Al Maria |Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili |Negar Azimi |Anna Della Subin |Antonia Carver |Yasmine El Rashidi | +9 more

Lisa Farjam Bidoun was really born out of a reaction to 9/11 and the subsequent rise of Islamophobia and sensationalist Western media coverage of the Middle East. In the arts specifically, media coverage of the region was always quite superficial. I was interested in building bridges between cities like Cairo and Beirut, and working with the communities of writers and artists who lived there. Initially, Bidoun grew out of conversations between myself and my closest friend, Sunny Rahbar.

Feb 23, 2024 | aperture.org | Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Taysir Batniji’s gift as an artist may well be his restlessness. He paints, he draws, he takes photographs and does performances. He has never settled on one mode of art-making or another.