Leila Khoury Nimry Podcasts
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Artist talk recorded on 27 April 2022 at Accelerator, to introduce the work "PRE-EXODUS" and invite a conversation on its related themes.
Participants
Solenne Tadros, artist
Lina Aastrup, curator
Shahram Khosravi, professor of social anthropology, Stockholm University
Leila Khoury Nimry was thirteen years old when she fled her home in Haifa, Palestine during the Nakba in 1948. In "PRE-EXODUS" she shares the memories of her childhood bedroom, illustrated and developed into a virtual reality experience, created by artist Solenne Tadros. The work activates questions of memory, intergenerational trauma, forced displacement and loss of land.
Accelerator has a collaboration with the International Master’s Programme in Curating Art at Stockholm University. The students create events in connection to themes that Accelerator wishes to highlight in the exhibition programme. The exhibition "PRE-EXODUS" is part of Lina Aastrup’s degree project.