Join artist Nour Mobarak for an unscripted journey charting the varied media, material, and methods central to her work. With a practice spanning performance, sound, and sculpture, Mobarak explores the intersensory potential of language and the human voice. Recent presentations at MoMA and as part of the Whitney Biennial highlight Mobarak’s ongoing investigation into the sound and language moving across time and bodies, both human and mycological.
This talk is co-presented with the University of Washington’s School of Art + Art History + Design, with an audience Q&A to follow.
About Nour Mobarak
Nour Mobarak (Lebanese American, b. Cairo, Egypt) lives and works between Los Angeles; Bainbridge Island; and Athens, Greece. Mobarak excavates violence and desire in organic and societal bodies—the compulsions, and glitches in a person or nation state. Her body and body of work acts, in voice, sculpture, sound, performance, writing and video, as one hybrid part under current geopolitical conditions. Her works have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, NY (2024-2025); Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2024-2025); Miguel Abreu Gallery, NY (2025, 2021, 2019); Sylvia Kouvali, London and Piraeus, (2023, 2017); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge(2022); Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2023). She has performed at Western Front, Vancouver; the Hammer Museum, LA; Cafe OTO, London; Renaissance Society, Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, SD; and elsewhere.
About Art Fwd
Art Fwd is a new public lecture series on contemporary art and ideas featuring field-defining artists, curators, and thinkers. In addition to the public talk, invited speakers engage with University of Washington students through studio visits and critiques. Art Fwd is co-presented by the Henry and the University of Washington School of Art + Art History + Design.
CREDITS
Generous support for this lecture series is provided by the Floyd and Delores Jones Endowed Fund for the Arts and the Endowed Program Support FUNd in Art.