Artists

Michael Rakowitz, Otobong Nkanga, Laure Prouvost, Haroon Mirza, Susan Hiller, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Sean Scully, Celia Hempton, Huguette Caland, Leiko Ikemura, Simone Fattal, Lubaina Himid, Hugh Hayden, Barbara Walker, Liliane Tomasko, Magda Stawarska, Hrair Sarkissian, Miko Veldkamp, Luísa Correia Pereira, Chelenge van Rampelberg, John Latham, Anuar Khalifi, Paul Heyer, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Sarah Cunningham, Saloua Raouda Choucair, Souad Abdelrassoul, Sonia Balassanian, Gor Soudan

Press release

Finding My Blue Sky is an exhibition conceived as a constellation, at once epic and polyglot, personal and searchingly political. Curated by Dr. Omar Kholeif, this ambitious group show at Lisson Gallery features over twenty artists from diverse nationalities and eras, including several making their London debut, alongside twelve new commissions. The show elides biographical and cultural difference in overlapping personal narratives: it is at one level a self-reflexive statement, akin to a diary or memoir, evolving out of Kholeif’s formative interactions and new encounters with artists, and his own diasporic heritage (as the son of Egyptian and Sudanese parents). At another, it invites viewers to participate in the creation of meaning – to dream of their own aesthetic politics. Accordingly, the parallel title in Arabic has a distinct inflection: “What is the World that you Dream of?” Spanning both London spaces, as well as its courtyards, windows, and adjacent street corners, Finding My Blue Sky builds into a chorus of voices and histories.