Curated by noncitizen members Nour Helou, Afrang Nordlöf Malekian, and Christian Rossipal. With a music composition by Ahmad Alattar, films by Merazul Islam and Roozbeh Behtaji, Evan Khorasani, Elyas Alavi and Critical Border Studies, and Meriem Bennani, and a conversation with Amany Khalifa.
Dissident Practices, on view April 19-June 16, 2023, at Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, explores how Brazilian women artists respond to social change from the military dictatorship in the mid-1960s to the return to democracy in the mid-1980s, the social changes of the 2000s, the rise of the Right in the late-2010s, and the recent development of a more diverse younger generation fighting for gender equality and LGBTQI+ rights.