Jala Wahid, Frieze London Booth H03, Focus Section, installation view, SOPHIE TAPPEINER, 2021.
Jala Wahid, Doesn’t Feel Like Conquering, Feels Like Reunion, 2021, Resin, fibreglass, 90 x 54 x 6 cm
Jala Wahid, Carved My Sole In Two, Soul Halved In Bloom, 2021, resin, fibreglass, 110 x 40 x 23 cm
Reconfigured, Installation view, Timothy Taylor, 2021
Jala Wahid, Ugallu, 2020 PLA, jesmonite, 24 x 26 x 2 cm
Jala Wahid, Colossal Guardian (Your Unity Is No Use to Me), 2020 PLA, jesmonite, 24 x 20 x 15 cm
Jala Wahid, Evil Eye (Sunset), 2020. Jesmonite, mica. 47 x 70 x 10 cm.
Jala Wahid, My Heart Enflamed, Burns Wild, Beats Gast, This Love Will Last, 2020. Jesmonite, mica, lacquer. 47 x 86 x 2 cm
Jala Wahid, Newroz, installation view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2019. Copyright: Kunst-Dokumentation.com
Jala Wahid, Turning Fibre to Fire, 2019, jesmonite, fibreglass, mica, 89 x 42 x 32 cm.
Jala Wahid, Cindering Wreath, 2019, aluminium, taffeta, nylon, miyuki beads, 72 x 23 x 22 cm. Copyright: Kunst-Dokumentation.com
Jala Wahid, Newroz, installation view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2019. Copyright: Kunst-Dokumentation.com
Jala Wahid, Vernal Pyre, 2019, jesmonite, fibreglass, mica, 200 x 200 x 3 cm. Copyright: Kunst-Dokumentation.com
Jala Wahid, Fiery Father, 2019 Single Channel Video 6 mins 6
Jala Wahid, Red Forever Approaching Obsidian II, 2019 Jesmonite, latex 48.3 x 99 x 88.9 cm Installation view, Searching the Sky for Rain, SculptureCenter, New York, 2019. Photo: Kyle Knodell
Jala Wahid, Dancing the Halparkeh, 2019 MDF, mild steel, microcrystalline wax, beeswax, jesmonite, enamel paint 64 x 110 x 244cm Photo: Andy Keate
Jala Wahid, Dancing the Halparkeh, 2019 (detail) MDF, mild steel, microcrystalline wax, beeswax, jesmonite, enamel paint 64 x 110 x 244cm Photo: Andy Keate
Jala Wahid, Choke Hold, No Need To Breathe, 2019 Pewter 18 x 8 x 3cm Photo: Andy Keate
Jala Wahid, Sighing Low, 2018 Pewter, Jesmonite Photo: Charles Benton
Born From and Buried in Baba Gurgur, 2018 (detail) Photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Being Towards the World, installation view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2019. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner and the artist. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Jala Wahid, No Hold Too Strong, 2017 Jesmonite, aluminium, fat, dimensions variable. Akh Milk Bile Threat, Seventeen Gallery Photo: Damian Griffiths
Jala Wahid, Final Blade, 2017 Jesmonite. Akh Milk Bile Threat, Seventeen Gallery Photo: Damian Griffiths
Jala Wahid, Oh Leander!, Single Channel Video 4mins15
Jala Wahid, Akh Milk Bile Threat Seventeen Gallery, 2017 Installation view: Damian Griffiths
Jala Wahid, Akh Milk Bile Threat Seventeen Gallery, 2017 Installation view: Damian Griffiths
Jala Wahid, Eat Clay, Drink Dirty Water, 2017 Jesmonite Akh Milk Bile Threat, Seventeen Gallery Photo: Damian Griffiths
Bio
Jala Wahid (*1988, lives and works in London) works across sculpture, video, installation and writing. She looks to the emotive and symbolic potential of materials, music and song in exploring the interregional and internal politics that have shaped Kurdistan and the implications this has from a diasporic perspective. She is interested in the complexities of nationalism within a stateless people, history and iconography, methods of archiving and existence, and Kurdish culture and politics as forms of self-preservation and defiance.
Jala Wahid received her BA from Goldsmiths College, London in 2014 and completed her PgDip in Fine Art at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2019.
Upcoming projects include solo exhibitions at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Fall 2022 and the Kunstverein Freiburg in Spring 2023 as well as a participation in the group show ‘Power Centre’ at DauLang in Seoul.
Recent solo exhibitions include: 2022 ‘Aftermath‘, Niru Ratnam Gallery , London (UK); 2021 ‘Rock Fortress’, CAS Batumi, Batumi (GE), ‘Cry Me a Waterfall‘, Two Queens, Leicester (UK),; 2020 ‘Rock Fortress’ E.A. Shared Space, Tbilisi (GE); 2019 ‘Newroz’, SOPHIE TAPPEINER, Vienna (AT); 2017 ‘Akh Milk Bile Threat‘, Seventeen Gallery, London (UK), ‘Shahmaran’, Clearview, London (UK).
Selected group exhibitions include: 2022 ‘Testament‘, Goldsmiths CCA, London (UK); 2021 ‘Reconfigured‘, curated by Rose Easton, Timothy Taylor Gallery, New York City (US); 2019 ‘Searching the Sky for Rain‘, SculptureCenter, New York (US), ‘Being Towards‘ The World, SOPHIE TAPPEINER, Vienna (AT); 2018 ‘Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance, Acts 1, 2, and 3‘, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (UK), De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill and Arnolfini, Bristol (UK); 2018 ‘Entangled Tales‘, Rupert, Vilnius (LT); 2016 ‘Europa and the Bull‘, curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini, Lambda Lambda Lambda, Pristina (XK), ‘And I’ll Promise You‘, Serpentine Gallery Park Nights, London (UK).
Wahid co-edited SALT. Magazine from 2012-2019.
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