Acknowledgements

Special Thanks

ArteEast Livia Alexander, Executive Director Rasha Salti, ArteEast Creative Director Salima Semmar, Programs Coordinator and Web Director Danielle Jefferis, Director of Development Sarah Malaika, Tarjama/Translation Exhibition Coordinator Suna Kafadar, Programs Coordinator and Managing Editor ArteEast

Online Virginia Dickson, ArteEast Intern

Queens Museum of Art Tom Finkelpearl, Executive Director Hitomi Iwasaki, Director of Exhibitions/ Curator Larissa Harris, Curator Louise Weinberg, Registrar/ Archives Manager Arnold Kanarvogel, Exhibition Production Manager Erin Sickler, Exhibition Manager/Curatorial Assistant Jodi Hanel, Director of Development David Strauss, Director of External Affairs Prerana Reddy, Director of Public Events Lauren Schloss, Director of Education Laura Groskinsky, School and Family Education Coordinator Lou Acquavita, Facilities Manager Tova Rothman Small, Curatorial Intern

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Frank Robinson, The Richard J. Schwartz Director Ellen Avril, Chief Curator and Curator of Asian Art

This exhibition would not have been possible without the support of the following:

Nominators Bassam Al-Baroni Jacques Assouad David Elliot Maymanah Farhat Abdellah Karroum Vasif Kortun Beral Madra Mona Marzouk Hammad Nasar Katarzyna Pieprzak Jessica Winegar

AhmadyArts Nurjahan Akhlaq

Asia Society Sarah M. Barasch Rachel Cooper Anne Kirkup Helen Koh Rad Rahman Yuri Sakamoto Asian Contemporary Art Week Team Lenders Alexander and Bonin Gallery Al-Masar Gallery ARS AEVI Museum of Contemporary Art Art Projects International (API) Brancolini Grimaldi Arte Contemporanea Daneyal Mahmood Gallery Green Cardamom Josh Fink Lombard-Freid Projects Priska C. Juschka Fine Art

Tarjama/Translation Virtual Gallery Duygu Demir

Sponsors

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Chelsea Art Museum Sam Bardaouil Katie Dyson Alana Esposito

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Mapping an influential subset of recent art from the Middle East, Central Asia, and their diasporas, Tarjama/Translation includes the work of 28 artists in a variety of media— drawing, installation, painting, photography, video. Contemporary artists are perhaps also the greatest translators. They create significance by transforming experience, perception, and thought into acts and materials of communication by scrutinizing everything at hand—materiality, culture, society, belief. The exhibition accordingly situates their practice as a complex and dynamic translational undertaking.

In Tarjama/Translation, language and textuality remain salient, but in engaging more fully with the complexities of our present era, the exhibition also focuses on approaches of visual translation across conceptual, temporal, and geographic borders. Translation here is therefore multivalent, from the specificities of textual and visual maneuvers to the larger sense of revealing fissures of the self, community, site and temporality. It foregrounds how contemporary artists negotiate the continued dislocational force of modern historical formations and track newer dilemmas engendered by a globalization saturated with mediatized visuality.

Curated by Leeza Ahmady, Iftikhar Dadi, and Reem Fadda, Tarjama/Translation includes the work of:

Ayad Alkadhi, Nazgol Ansarinia, Hamdi Attia, Lara Baladi, Yto Barrada, Esra Ersen, Khaled Hafez, Emily Jacir, Pouran Jinchi, John Jurayj, Gülsün Karamustafa, Bouchra Khalili, Almagul Menlibayeva, Farhad Moshiri, Rabih Mroué, Rahraw Omarzad, Khalil Rabah, Michael Rakowitz, Khaled Ramadan, Solmaz Shahbazi, Wael Shawky, Mitra Tabrizian, Alexander Ugay, Sharif Waked, Dilek Winchester, Yelena Vorobyeva & Viktor Vorobyev, Akram Zaatari