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Hajra Waheed: A Solo Exhibition

September 8, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - February 11, 2024 @ 5:00 pm

Free

The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) announces a major solo exhibition of new and existing works by Montréal-based artist Hajra Waheed. Marking the first solo exhibition of Waheed’s work in the United States, the presentation will include video, sound installation, painting, and works on paper including newly commissioned works. The exhibition offers the first definitive consideration of the artist’s practice in the country and will be accompanied by a major exhibition catalog published by the Museum. Hajra Waheed: A Solo Exhibition will be on view at CAM from September 8, 2023–February 11, 2024.

Waheed’s multidisciplinary practice explores the legacies of colonial and state violence with a uniquely poetic approach and engagement with the world. Weaving between the intimate and infinite constellations of the communities of which she is a part, her works in the exhibition—while rooted in the historical—imagine new possibilities towards a radically collective future. The artist’s work has been shown internationally and has received major recognition; recently, Waheed received the 2022 Outstanding Achievement Award from the Hnatyshyn Foundation in Ottawa, Canada and the 2023 Sharjah Biennial 15 Prize in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. 

Waheed’s exhibition will include Hum (2020), the artist’s immersive, 16-channel musical composition and sound installation. Originally commissioned for Lahore Biennale 02 and staged for Portikus in Frankfurt in 2020, Hum will be re-created by the artist specifically for CAM’s galleries this fall as part of its US debut. This key work, whose title translates to “We” in Urdu, reflects on international solidarity movements that emerged in the second half of the 20th century through processes of decolonization in the Global South. The composition features eight hummed songs of resistance from South, Central, West Asia, and Africa. The exhibition will also include a new series of sculptures, drawings, and painted works on paper commissioned for this exhibition alongside recent works including video and sculpture. 

Hajra Waheed: A Solo Exhibition will be accompanied by a major exhibition publication featuring a conversation between Wassan Al-Khudhairi and the artist as well as guest essays from writer, translator, and educator Rayya Badran and writer and editor H.G. Masters. Designed by Marquand Books and distributed by D.A.P., the catalog will be published by CAM and released in fall 2023.

Hajra Waheed: A Solo Exhibition is organized for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis by Wassan Al-Khudhairi, former Ferring Foundation Chief Curator, with Misa Jeffereis, Associate Curator.

Major support for Hajra Waheed: A Solo Exhibition is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. This exhibition is generously supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Strive Fund, and the Whitaker Foundation. Hum was made possible with the generous support of the Lahore Biennial Foundation and Portikus, Frankfurt. The artist talk is sponsored by the Robert Lehman Foundation.

Image: Hajra Waheed, Hum, 2020. Multi-channel sound installation with custom speaker casings, 36 minutes, 17 seconds. Installation view, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany (July 11–September 6, 2020). Courtesy the artist. Photo courtesy Diana Pfammatter.

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Start:
September 8, 2023 @ 6:00 pm
End:
February 11 @ 5:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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https://camstl.org/exhibitions/hajra-waheed/

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Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
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(314) 535–4660
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Hajra Waheed

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Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
3750 Washington Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63108 United States
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