Tiffany Malakooti

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.

Dec 4, 2023 | bidoun.org | Fatima Al Qadiri |Meriem Bennani |Negar Azimi |Tiffany Malakooti

Friendship inflects and informs much of the artist Meriem Bennani’s work. Many of the actors in the films that comprise her dystopian science fictional film trilogy — Party on the CAPS (2018-19), Guided Tour of a Spill (2021), and Life on the CAPS (2022) — are old friends and family members, or artists whose work she admired from afar and later befriended whilst collaborating.