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Marwa Arsanios
Who is afraid of ideology? Part 2, 2019
Video and installation, dimensions variable
Installation view: Sharjah Biennial 14: ‘Leaving the Echo Chamber’
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation and coproduced with Onassis Fast Forward Festival 6, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Vooruit Belgium
Courtesy of the artist and Mor-Charpentier Gallery
Congratulations to Sharjah Biennial 14 artist Marwa Arsanios, who won the Georges De Beauregard International Award for her two-part Who is afraid of ideology? at the 30th FIDMarseille. This year’s edition of the international documentary film festival ran from 9 to 15 July 2019.
In her film Who is afraid of ideology? Part 1 (2017), the artist explores structures of self-governance that have been developed by the Kurdish autonomous women’s movement communes. Who is afraid of ideology? Part 2 (2019), and the accompanying installation, continue her research into Jinwar, a women-only village in the north of Syria, and extend her work to a farming cooperative close to the Syrian border in the Lebanese Bekaa Valley.
Both parts of Who is afraid of ideology? were shown at Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber (SB14), which ran from 7 March through 10 June 2019. Who is afraid of ideology? Part 2 (2019) was commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation and co-produced with Onassis Fast Forward Festival 6, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Vooruit Belgium. Who is afraid of ideology? Part 1 (2017) was commissioned by the Walker Art Center with major support from the Bentson Foundation.
Marwa Arsanios is an artist, filmmaker and researcher who reconsiders the Middle Eastern politics of the mid-twentieth century from a contemporary perspective.
Marwa Arsanios’ recent projects have revolved around questions of ecology, feminism, social organisation, nation-building, war and economic struggle.