Line without Line, Color without Color: the work of Saloua Raouda Choucair

In this curatorial talk, Barlow took a close look at the active rhythms of progress in the paintings, sculptures, and writings of the trailblazing Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair (1916- 2017) who was little known outside of her region till very recently. In exploring Choucair’s approach to internal and external systems in relationship to organic and built environments, Barlow initiated a process of mapping her work as an expanded sculptural, architectural, and design practice within an international modernism.

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Laura Barlow, Line without Line, Color without Color: the work of Saloua Raouda Choucair, 2017. Lecture documentation FIELD MEETING Take 5: Thinking Project, November 15th at SVA Theatre.

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Laura Barlow is Curator at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar. Recent curated exhibitions include Mohammed Melehi: 1959-1971 (2017); Basim Magdy: It All Started With a Map and a Picture of Scattered Little Houses (2017); Hassan Sharif: Objects and Files (2016); and Saloua Raouda Choucair: The Meaning of One, The Meaning of the Multiple (2015). At e-flux, New York between 2010-2014, she organized exhibitions with Mariana Silva & Pedro Neves Marques, Khalil Rabah, Rossella Biscotti, and Hito Steyerl. She is a PhD candidate at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in the Institute of History and Theory of Architecture and Planning.

Laura Barlow – Line without Line, Color without Color: the work of Saloua Raouda Choucair