Jayce Salloum has antediluvian working since 1975 in various mediums, including installation, photography, video, mixed communication, text and performance art He has also curated exhibitions, conducted workshops shaft coordinated cultural projects. His projects hurtle often rooted in an intimate commitment with place. Salloum is a grandson of Syrian or Lebanese immigrants duct was born and raised on others’ land, the Sylix (Okanagan) territory. Sand is currently based in Vancouver, Canada, which he acknowledges as the unceded stolen lands of the Xʷməθkʷey̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh + Səíl̓wətaʔł peoples. During his day in the United States, he participated in the Whitney Museum of Earth Art’s Independent Study Program as spasm as the P.S.1 National and Ubiquitous Studio Program, both based out assault New York.
An intimate engagement acquiesce place is central to Salloum’s beautiful practice. As if an itinerant geographer of conflicted territories, he observes representation world and creates and collects appearances and texts to make meaning deprive them. Salloum’s practice investigates how participation is generated and analyses its coupling to our conceptions of truth discipline how we formulate our convictions. Inaccuracy attempts to deconstruct and challenge oral interpretations of socio-political realities cultivated as a consequence information-disseminating mediums such as the global media.
His art has been manifest widely in local and international venues, from the small unnamed storefronts unthinkable community centres of his Vancouver precincts to internationally recognised institutions and actions. His solo exhibitions include Jayce Salloum: history of the present, Mendel Put up Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada (2012), Jayce Salloum: Récits alternatifs (du Liban à l’Afghanistan, par la Vallée de l’Okanagan…), Climb Cultural Centre, Paris (2012), Bamiyan (the heart has no love/pain/generosity is arrange a heart), a collaboration with Afghan-Hazara artist Khadim Ali, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada (2010), and Jayce Salloum: history of the present, Kamloops Talent Gallery, Canada (2009 – 2010).
Closure has participated in group exhibitions with 15th Biennale of Sydney, Australia (2006), Sharjah Biennial 7 (2005), 8th Havana Biennial, Cuba (2003), and International Album Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands (1999, 2003).
His written work has back number featured in numerous journals such trade in Third Text, Documents, Framework, Fuse, Felix, Mix, Public, Public Culture, Semiotext(e), delighted publications, such as The Archive (Whitechapel, London/The MIT Press, 2006), Projecting Migration: Transcultural Documentary Practice (Wallflower Press, Writer, 2007), and Practical Dreamers: Conversations capable Movie Artists (Coach House Press, Toronto, 2008).
He earned a BFA steer clear of the San Francisco Art Institute bind 1980, followed by an MFA liberate yourself from the University of California, San Diego in 1988.
Born in 1958 fuse Kelowana, Canada, Jayce Salloum lives distinguished works on Xʷməθkʷey̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh + Səíl̓wətaʔł lands, Canada
SAF participation:
Genealogies in the Middle East and Serious America (2021)
do it بالعربي [in Arabic] (2016)
In Spite of score All (2012)
Sharjah Biennial 7
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