Shadi Habib Allah
Shad Habib Allah works with video, installation, and sculpture to examine the how structures might be subverted to clarify their respective functions and values. By documenting the circulation of objects and people, the artist examines the evolution and even erasure of their histories and economies. In one ongoing project, a concrete set of footprints on the Palestine/Israel border will be photographed every three years, allowing Habib Allah to depict how the landscape changes and perhaps disappears. The artist is skeptical of assumed power structures and seeks to dissolve the ease with which one might submit to them. By seeking out macrocosms including a Miami body shop and the nature of mass-produced plastic bags, Habib Allah deconstructs even the most basic bureaucratic systems.
Habib Allah participated in the 2015 New Museum Triennial, New York, Palestine c/o Venice at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009, and the Riwaq Biennale in Ramallah in 2009. He has also exhibited at the Tate Modern, London, Artists Space, New York, and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Habib Allah was twice awarded second prize in the Young Artist Award from A.M. Qatar Foundation, and has held residencies at Cittadelarte, Fondazione Pistoletto in Italy, and Gasworks in London. In …
Shad Habib Allah works with video, installation, and sculpture to examine the how structures might be subverted to clarify their respective functions and values. By documenting the circulation of objects and people, the artist examines the evolution and even erasure of their histories and economies. In one ongoing project, a concrete set of footprints on the Palestine/Israel border will be photographed every three years, allowing Habib Allah to depict how the landscape changes and perhaps disappears. The artist is skeptical of assumed power structures and seeks to dissolve the ease with which one might submit to them. By seeking out macrocosms including a Miami body shop and the nature of mass-produced plastic bags, Habib Allah deconstructs even the most basic bureaucratic systems.
Habib Allah participated in the 2015 New Museum Triennial, New York, Palestine c/o Venice at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009, and the Riwaq Biennale in Ramallah in 2009. He has also exhibited at the Tate Modern, London, Artists Space, New York, and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Habib Allah was twice awarded second prize in the Young Artist Award from A.M. Qatar Foundation, and has held residencies at Cittadelarte, Fondazione Pistoletto in Italy, and Gasworks in London. In 2012 he was the recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award.
