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Shehab Awad

SHEHAB AWAD is a curator based in New York.

Meriem Bennani: Party on the CAPS

By Shehab Awad

For Meriem Bennani’s first solo exhibition at CLEARING, the Brooklyn-based Moroccan artist has transformed the gallery into something like a spaceship.

Meriem Bennani, <em>Party on the CAPS</em>, 2018-2019. 8-channel video installation, 30 minutes. Wood wrap around screen, wooden dented screen, steel details (ladder between screens, ladder shape by triangle screen, curved pipe going through screen, magnifying glass with plexi), 9 steel and croco pleather stools with LED lights inside. Curved screen sculpture made of a metal structure, stretched rear project screen, wood stair structure wrapped in foam and croco pleather. Overall dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and C L E A R I N G, New York / Brussels. Photo: JSP Art Photography.

Mahmoud Khaled: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you

By Shehab Awad

Mahmoud Khaled’s debut U.S. exhibition at Helena Anthrather Gallery is littered with personal confessions hiding in plain sight.

<p>Installation shot of Mahmoud Khaled's<em> I want you to konw that I am hiding something from you</em>, 2018. Courtesy of the artist, Helena Anrather Gallery, New York, and Gypsum Gallery, Cairo.</p>
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