Slow Art Walk with Mo Reda

Slow Art Walks

Aligned with ‘alternative ways of being’ and mindfulness, Slow Art Walks invite visitors to take the time to slow down and reflect, not to rush, but to take time to unpack and understand.

Matrialing the Imaginary

As part of the Alserkal Art Week activities, artist-curator Mo Reda conducts a Slow Art Walk which is aiming to focus on and highlight the power of the imaginary, the imagination, and the visionary aspects of the artists's productional proccess.

Art is a methodology of expressing visions, imaginations, desires, and dreams which also acts as a bridge between the imaginary / the visionary and the material-based tangible surrounding reality. The tour will highlight the power of material selection in terms, texture, dimensions, colours and methodologies of implementation which are all foundational in materialising and presenting the ideas.

The walk will allow the participants to reflect on a selected number of works that orbit around the power of the imagination in the art-making process. The Walk is an interactive meeting and invites the participants to highlight and collectively reflect on an artwork during The Walk.

Mo Reda is a curator whose research examines the relationship of the individual non- reality versus collective agreements.

His curatorial projects include the video installation Turbulent by Shirin Neshat and The Fourth Wall Exhibition, Santa Cruz de la Sierra Biennale, Bolivia (2020); Residual Volumes of Narcissism, Kochi Biennale (2016–2017); The Blue Hour, Santa Cruz de la Sierra Biennale (2016); Trans Indian Ocean Artists Exchange, Kochi Biennale (2016–2017); The Black River Project, Jogja Biennale (2015); Post Oriental Odyssey, The Mine, Dubai (2015); Per/From, a performance art production programme, CAP, Kuwait (2014); Reciprocal, Kiosko Art Space, Bolivia (2013); exhibitions Displacement and Preludes as well as an Artist Leadership Programme, Al Bareh Gallery, Bahrain (2013); Disgraced, Museum Night Delft, the Netherlands (2012); Yet I See the Invisible Borders, Makan Art Space, Jordan (2012); I Am/ The Other, Al Riwaq Art Space, Bahrain (2012). Reda has participated in numerous residencies, including curator-in-residence, Tashkeel (2021–2022); Theertha Art Foundation, Colombo (2020); 1st Shanthi Road Residency, Bengaluru (2019); Langgen Art Foundation, Yogyakarta (2018); and Kochi Biennale Research Residency (2016).

He was awarded the Adrie Piek Prize by the HKU Utrecht Academy (2009) and has received funding for several of his projects, including the Trans Indian Ocean Artists Exchange; Residual Volumes of Narcissism and the Artists Leadership Programme at Al Bareh Gallery.

Reda earned a BFA from HKU Academy in the Netherlands (2006). Born in 1977 in Kuwait City, he currently lives and works between the Middle East, South and South-East Asia.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Alserkal Avenue, A4 Space, 17th Street, Dubai, United Arab Emirates