Adelita Husni-Bey
Adelita Husni-Bey is an artist and pedagogue interested in anarco-collectivism, theater, law and urban studies. She organizes workshops, produces publications, radio broadcasts, archives and exhibition work focused on using non-competitive pedagogical models through the framework of contemporary art. Working with activists, architects, jurists, schoolchildren, spoken word poets, actors, urbanists, physical therapists, athletes, teachers and students across different backgrounds the work focuses on unpacking the complexity of collectivity. To make good what can never be made good: what we owe each other. Recent solo exhibitions include: White Paper: On Land, Law and the Imaginary, Centro de Arte dos de Mayo, Mostoles, A Wave in the Well, Sursock Museum, Beirut, 2016, Movement Break, Kadist foundation, 2015, Playing Truant, Gasworks, 2012. She has participated in Being: New Photography 2018, MoMA, 2018, Dreamlands, Whitney Museum, 2016, The Eighth Climate, 11th Gwangju Biennale, 2015, Really Useful Knowledge, Reina Sofia museum, 2014, Utopia for Sale?, MAXXI museum, 2014 and has held workshops and lectures at ESAD Grenoble, 2016, The New School, 2015, Sandberg Institute, 2015, Museo del 900, 2013, Temple University, 2013, Birkbeck University, 2011 amongst other spaces. She is a 2012 Whitney Independent Study Program fellow, a 2016 Graham Foundation grantee and has represented Italy at the Venice Biennale of Art, 2017 with a video rooted in anti-extractivist struggles.
BIO

The council #1, 2018
c-print
183 × 274 cm

The council #2, 2018
c-print
142 × 177 cm

The council #3, 2018
c-print
142 × 177 cm

The council #4, 2018
c-print
142 × 177 cm

The council #5, 2018
c-print
142 × 177 cm

crying king - archetype III (study), 2017
indian ink and acrylic on paper
55,5 × 71 cm

Matrice, 2017
indian ink on paper
38 × 28 cm

matrice - (coloured), 2017
indian ink and acrylic on paper
38 × 28 cm

Petrolio, 2017
charcoal and acrylic on paper
61 × 45,5 cm

Prosthesis - Agricolture, 2017
indian ink and acrylic on paper
71 × 55,5 cm

Prosthesis - Meat, 2017
indian ink and acrylic on paper
71 × 55,5 cm

prosthetic (small), 2017
indian ink and crayon on paper
28 × 38 cm

The reading / La Seduta, 2017
single channel 4K video installation, 7.1 Dolby surround, with silicone props, 15:33” on loop

LA LUNA IN FOLLE, 2016
3 channel video installation resulting from collective theater-writing workshop, handpainted rotating stage: wood, oil and acrylic paint, LED lights, electronic parts and circular dolly track

Wave in the well, 2016
inkjet prints on wallpaper
100 × 150 cm

Wave in the well, 2016
inkjet prints on wallpaper
100 × 150 cm

Wave in the well, 2016
inkjet prints on wallpaper
100 × 150 cm

Wave in the well, 2016
inkjet prints on wallpaper
100 × 150 cm

Wave in the well, 2016
inkjet prints on wallpaper
100 × 150 cm

Wave in the well, 2016
inkjet prints on wallpaper
100 × 150 cm

Wave in the well, 2016
inkjet prints on wallpaper
100 × 150 cm

2265, 2015
2 channel installation, HD video, color, sound
12‘

After the Finish Line, 2015
4K video, color, sound
12‘39‘‘

White paper: The Law, 2015
6 screen-printed posters with hand-written notes and corrections
100 × 140 cm

Ard, 2014
Video, colour, audio
23’20’’

Banchieri - dalla serie agency giochi di potere, 2014
c-print
85 × 55 cm

Politici - dalla serie Agency - giochi di potere, 2014
c-print
110 × 147 cm

White Paper: the land, 2014
architectural model and video
175 × 265 × 125 cm

Working for a world free of poverty, 2014
c-print mounted on leger; series of 6 photos
70 × 100 cm

(On) Difficult terms , 2013
MP3 audio, 40‘, Series of 15 photographs, B&W digital print and acrylic ink on archive paper; 30x40 cm

The Jealous State, 2013
Black and white photograph, 140 x 166 cm and dislocated audio piece, duration 40”20’

Action for a sandbag brigade - writing the borders of crisis, 2011
performance

Esercizi d'interpretazione, 2011
mixed media on paper
70 × 100 cm

Esercizi d'interpretazione, 2011
mixed media on paper
70 × 100 cm

Esercizi d'interpretazione, 2011
mixed media on paper
70 × 100 cm

Esercizi d'interpretazione, 2011
mixed media on paper
70 × 100 cm

I Want the Sun I Want, 2011
16mm lm transferred to DVD, Original language: French (English/ Italian subtitles) - series of 3 posters
09‘25’‘

La montagna verde(Anadiomene), 2011
VHS transfered to DVD
10‘

Postcards from the desert island, 2011
SD video transfered to DVD, 22‘23‘‘ oil on canvas, cm 150X250
22‘23‘‘

Room for a Void, 2011
silver based print, book
40 × 30 cm

The Sleepers, 2011
oil on canvas
350 × 165 cm

Gestures of labour, 2010
silent video, S8 transferred to DVD
5'39''

Lethe, 2010
S8 transfered to DVD (5 monitors)
4‘20‘‘ loop

Clays Lane Live Archive, 2009-2012
archive held at Bishopsgate Institute, London

Lessons from the twilight kingdom I, 2009
mixed media on paper
146 × 100 cm

Mouth, 2009
c-print
100 × 70 cm

Principless of geometry, 2009
crayon on paper
15 × 12 cm

Story of the heavens and our planet, 2008
S8 Trasferred to DVD
7‘07‘‘

Treesitting Archive, 2007
series of 5 c-print
70 × 70 cm