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Re-enacting Resistance: Jamelie Hassan
April 21, 2012 - June 10, 2012
AWE Gallery
![Baalqis in library, film by Jamelie Hassan](https://artwindsoressex.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/still-from-les-langues-du-monde-300x201.jpg)
For the last three decades, Jamelie Hassan’s art practice has consistently expanded the spectrum of contemporary art discourse in Canada. Hassan has received numerous awards including The Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2001 and most recently the Canada Council’s Arts International Artist Residency in Paris in the fall of 2012. Re-enacting Resistance brings together key works that highlight Hassan’s activist art practice. Focussing on Hassan’s significant contribution to the role of the artist as a cultural agent, she revisits her early works that served as interlocutors of social justice. Merging the role of an organizer with that of an artist, Hassan re-enacts major installations from her prolific career to re-examine and question the shared responsibilities of artists, viewers and public galleries and museums at a time when civil unrest, violence and censorship threaten artists, journalists and cultural producers across the world. This exhibition will also include a special tour to of a private home in Windsor, which houses a site-specific work created by Hassan during her last exhibition at the Art Gallery of Windsor in 1997.
The artist dedicates this exhibition in honour of Noor Hassan, daughter of Carla and Tariq Hassan, for her remarkable strength, awesome courage and fighting spirit.
Media
![Baalqis in library, film by Jamelie Hassan](https://artwindsoressex.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/still-from-les-langues-du-monde-300x201.jpg)
Still from "Les langues du monde
![<p>L'espace de l'alphabet 2000-12<br />various architectural components and collected objects; material from the artist and her partner, Ron Benner's studio; 2 film works, Topsy Turvy Land, (1999) English & Arabic and les langue du monde, French (2000).<br />original music: George Sawa performing on the Qan'oun<br /><br />An installation in several parts with an emphasis on architecture, lost and hidden spaces and cultures as L' espace de l'alphabet takes the viewer through a series of works and fragments, into an interior which reveals a secret space. Inspired by the National Museum of Beirut and the actions of the then museum director who occupied a space in the museum to keep a watchful presence on the collection during the period of war in Lebanon. The National Museum was on the green line between east and west Beirut and suffered during the years of the civil war and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. <br /><br />In the film works Hassan's niece and nephew are filmed over a two year period as they investigate their relationship to Arabic geography, history and language and discuss their efforts to learn Arabic. They move from the familiar sites of the artist's kitchen and studio to make a journey in search of "a place". In Topsy Turvy Land two parables related to water are recited by each of the children. In les langues du monde, the site is a rare book room of a library (now destroyed) where a professor of French reads from a journal text called les langues du monde (languages of the world) to the young boy/administrator. His sister moves her way silently through the library</p>](https://artwindsoressex.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/re-enacting-resistance-installation-view-2-300x200.jpg)
Re-enacting Resistance (installation view)
![<p>Boutros Al Armenian/ Mediterranean Modern II 1997/ 2012<br />rubble, pieces of ceiling painting<br />video, 8 minutes, sound</p>](https://artwindsoressex.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/re-enacting-resistance-installation-view-300x200.jpg)
Re-enacting Resistance (installation view)
![<p>The Satanic Verses from The Trilogy 1990<br />photopanels, books, wood table, marble fountain, glazed ceramic tablets<br />Gift of the artist, 1998<br />1998.086</p>](https://artwindsoressex.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/jamelie-hassan-the-satanic-verses-1990-300x200.jpg)
Jamelie Hassan "The Satanic Verses" 1990
![<p>L'espace de l'alphabet 2000-12<br />various architectural components and collected objects; material from the artist and her partner, Ron Benner's studio; 2 film works, Topsy Turvy Land, (1999) English & Arabic and les langue du monde, French (2000).<br />original music: George Sawa performing on the Qan'oun<br /><br />An installation in several parts with an emphasis on architecture, lost and hidden spaces and cultures as L' espace de l'alphabet takes the viewer through a series of works and fragments, into an interior which reveals a secret space. Inspired by the National Museum of Beirut and the actions of the then museum director who occupied a space in the museum to keep a watchful presence on the collection during the period of war in Lebanon. The National Museum was on the green line between east and west Beirut and suffered during the years of the civil war and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. <br /><br />In the film works Hassan's niece and nephew are filmed over a two year period as they investigate their relationship to Arabic geography, history and language and discuss their efforts to learn Arabic. They move from the familiar sites of the artist's kitchen and studio to make a journey in search of "a place". In Topsy Turvy Land two parables related to water are recited by each of the children. In les langues du monde, the site is a rare book room of a library (now destroyed) where a professor of French reads from a journal text called les langues du monde (languages of the world) to the young boy/administrator. His sister moves her way silently through the library</p>](https://artwindsoressex.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/re-enacting-resistance-installation-view-1-300x200.jpg)