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Walid Raad

2025 Milestone Grantee

Bio

In part, an artist and a Professor of Photography at Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA). The list of exhibitions (good, bad and mediocre ones); awards and grants (merited, not merited, grateful for, rejected and/or returned); education (some of it thought-provoking; some of it, less so); publications (I am fond of some of my books, but more so of the books of Jalal Toufic. You can find his here: jalaltoufic.com), can be found somewhere online.

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Artwork details

I might die before I get a rifle

, 2008
Photographic prints63 × 83 inches each, 12 printsFrom the project The Atlas Group
I might die before I get a rifle, 2008. Photographic prints. 63 × 83 inches each, 12 prints. From the project The Atlas Group

Artwork

  • 12 prints installed in modern gallery space wall four by three. Each image shows hand holding different objects.
  • Panels of different color standing from front to back in domino form with scratched letter resembling signs in the center.
  • A room with patterned walls and arched stained glass windows contains a large pit of dirt with a rectangular hole in the center, illuminated from below. A metal stepladder stands over the hole.
  • Horizontal media projection with repetitive patterns resembling multi-unit buildings on cyan blue background.
  • 4 panels standing on gallery floor, each a different color and edged with geographical shapes. Ob

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