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Alia Farid
"In Lieu of What Is"
11.02.–22.05.2022

“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water” British poet W. H. Auden famously wrote. It seems fitting to recall his words here, in an introduction to Alia Farid’s work because, in a certain sense, much of the art she has made in recent years comes down to love and water. Entwined with these basic human needs are the contradictory forces of conflict and nature, ideology and ecology, vulnerability and justice, and ultimately, the ways in which greed and vengeance—love’s antagonists—have historically weaponized water in the Arab world. It is this region and a complex of concerns on which the Kuwaiti Puerto Rican artist focuses her first exhibition in Switzerland "In Lieu of What Is."

The exhibition is made possible through the kind support of Nicoletta Fiorucci Russo De Li Galli with additional support from the Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah. Several new works in the exhibition were produced by Kunsthalle Basel in collaboration with the 3rd Geneva Biennale—Sculpture Garden, 2022.

Video by Nefeli Chrysa Avgeris (nefeliavgeris.com)
Color Grading: Christian Taro
Camera Assistent: Nico Schmied
Sound: Nefeli Chrysa Avgeris
Produced by Claudio Vogt / Kunsthalle Basel