2024
Scollay Square Gallery, City Hall Boston, MA
Curated by Flor Delgadillo
Displacement addresses cultural experiences and challenges, emphasizing the shared understanding of constant migration. Each artist actively advocates for minorities, providing valuable insights into resilience, solidarity, and the power of cultural preservation.
2023
Exodus Gallery, Beirut
Collaboration between Rebecca Wakim & Matthew Wakim
The Echo Beirut x Transparency, is a sound collage that archives the emotions present in Lebanon during the years 2019-2022. It is an exhibit that speaks of the August 4th Beirut Port explosion in 2020 and the impact it has had on the country and its psyche.
Along with Rebecca’s sculpture Transparency, Matthew’s sound collage The Echo بيروت is meant to extend on the matter of political injustice and the lack of transparency within the Lebanese government.
2023
New Art Center, MA
ASWAT : أصوات Elevating Arab Women Voices is an exhibition that gives visibility and elevates the voices and perspectives of Arab Women. Exploring themes of personal and collective identity, the artwork presented showcases the strength, diversity and impact of Arab Women with roots in countries in the Middle East Region.
2022
UCLA New Wight Biennial, LA
Curated by: Farshid Bazmandegan and Rachel Hakimian Emenaker
The New Wight Biennial 2022: Between the Self and its True Home highlights multidisciplinary works from artists exploring ideas of exile, diaspora, and migration. Between the Self and its True Home features the work of 27 artists from across the globe.
2022
Hopkinton Center for the Arts, MA
Presented by guest curator and artist Flor Delgadillo
Displacement seeks awareness about what goes on beyond our borders, the gentrification and the erasure of community.
The preservation of culture through stories and as well as reevaluating political systems. The group of artists come from different parts of the world all sharing the lived experience of constant migration.
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