Camargo x Mahmoud Darwish Chair
2021-2022
The aim of this residency was to contribute to a contemporary conversation on Darwish’s legacy as well as to support scholars and artists from the Arab world. The four grantees of this program were selected with this consideration and furthermore in view of the multidisciplinary nature of their proposal, its positioning at the intersection of art and research, its ability to bridge the personal and the universal and to question history as well as contemporary national and international politics. The committee expected from the laureates to unveil future spaces and at the same time to dig in the past and its legacies.
About the partners
This program was launched by the Mahmoud Darwish Chair and the Camargo Foundation together with BOZAR, A.M. Qattan Foundation and Mucem.
The purpose of the Mahmoud Darwich Chair is to disseminate the work and thought of the Palestinian poet, who is considered as one of the greatest contemporary authors. His poetry, with its recurring concepts such as exile, memory and love, leads to a reflection on human fragility. The Chair wishes to present contemporary art from the Middle-East and Maghreb. It wants to promote the work of film-makers, directors, choreographers and writers from the region.
