Goodman Gallery is pleased to present Let the drums beat!, a solo presentation by Zineb Sedira. This marks the US debut of the British Franco-Algerian artist’s For A Brief Moment the Whole World Was on Fire...and We Have Come Back - a series of colorful photomontages seen in Sedira’s 2019 mid-career survey at Jeu De Paume, Paris. The presentation is also Sedira’s first in our New York office.
Two new lightboxes- Let the drums beat! (2023) and An awakening to the dream of thoughts (2023) - are presented alongside, in which Sedira highlights sentences sourced from so-called “third world” militant texts to transform them into militant slogans.
Sedira illuminates these captions in works which make reference to iconic Hollywood billboard signs, with each collated quote further spotlit in lights by surrounding individual bulbs.
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Artist Bio
Zineb Sedira (b. 1963 Paris, France) utilises the mediums of photography, film, video, object making, performance and installation. For over 25 years, her practice has addressed themes of history, migration and storytelling.
Solo exhibitions: Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin, 2023), Dundee Contemporary Arts (Dundee, 2023), De La Warr Pavilion (Bexhill-on-Sea, 2022), Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (Scottsdale, 2021), Jeu de Paume (Paris, 2019), Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (Valencia, 2019), Beirut Art Center (Lebanon, 2018) and Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2010).
Institutional group exhibitions: Kunsthausbaselland (Basel, 2022), The Photographers’ Gallery (London, 2021), Pompidou Centre (Paris, 2020), Yale Center for British Art (New Haven, 2019), Whitechapel Gallery (London, 2019), Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (Holland, 2018) and Tate Britain (London, 2013).
Biennials and triennials: the Gwangju Biennale (2023); Venice Biennale (2001, 2011, 2022); the Folkestone Triennial (2011); Sharjah Biennale (2003 and 2007); and the triennial for photography and video at the Institute of Contemporary Photography in New York (2003).
Sedira’s film Dreams Have No Titles (2022) was awarded the Special Mention of the Jury at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. In 2023, it was screened at the High Line in New York and at the Labia Theatre in Cape Town and went on display at TATE Britain in London as part of a rehang of the permanent collection. It will have its UK premiere at London’s Whitechapel Gallery in Spring 2024. The work will tour to the Cultural Foundation, Abu Dhabi, in Autumn 2024. Forthcoming is a significant solo exhibition at The Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon in February 2025.
