Jumana Manna

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Jumana Manna
Born1987 (age 36–37)
Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Education Oslo National Academy of the Arts,
California Institute of the Arts
OccupationVisual artist
Known forInstallation art, film

Jumana Manna (born 1987) is a Palestinian visual artist. Born in the United States, she lived in Jerusalem and Oslo, and now resides in Berlin. [1] [2] [3] She holds U.S. and Israeli citizenship. [4]

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A multidisciplinary visual artist, Manna works in multiple mediums, including installation art and film. Manna has produced work featured at the Museum of Modern Art, [5] MoMA PS1, [6] [7] [8] The Moving Museum, [9] the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, [2] [10] and the Wexner Center for the Arts. [11]

Early life and education

Manna was born in 1987, in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. [6] She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and a Master of Arts degree in aesthetics and politics at the California Institute of the Arts. [12]

Career

Manna's work explores the effects of preservation practices in the fields of agriculture, science and law. [13] [14]

Manna's 2015 film A Magical Substance Flows Into Me focuses on Robert Lachmann's quest to create an archive of "oriental music" in Jerusalem. [5] The Museum of Modern Art screened A Magical Substance Flows Into Me in 2022. [5]

In 2017, Manna released her second film Wild Relatives, which focused on the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway and its relationship with the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and ICARDA's stored seeds from the Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley amidst the backdrop of the Syrian Revolution . [15]

In 2021, her exhibition “Thirty Plumbers in the Belly" was on display at the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen. [2] [10]

In 2022, Manna's film Foragers (2022) was featured in the Toronto Biennial of Art exhibition “What Water Knows, the Land Remembers.” [16] [17] Foragers examines how Israel's declaration that za'atar and akkoub are protected species impacted Palestinians. [16] [17]

From September 2022 to August 2023, Manna had her first major American museum exhibition titled "Break, Take Erase, Tally," at MoMA PS1. [6] [7] [8] The exhibition was then brought to be displayed at the Wexner Center for the Arts. [11]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Jumana Manna | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  3. ↑ "Jumana Manna". Liverpool Biennial. Retrieved 2023-10-30.
  4. ↑ Art Forum
  5. 1 2 3 "Jumana Manna's A Magical Substance Flows into Me | Magazine | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  6. 1 2 3 Heinrich, Will (2022-09-29). "In Jumana Manna's Film, a Wild Plant Crosses the Political Line". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  7. 1 2 Hawa, Kaleem (2022-11-10). "Jumana Manna's Peasant Politics". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  8. 1 2 "Jumana Manna: Break, Take Erase, Tally | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  9. ↑ Baumgardner, Julie (2014-08-06). "A Nomadic Museum Takes Up Temporary Residence in Istanbul". T Magazine. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  10. 1 2 Chan, Hera. "Jumana Manna at Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M HKA)". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  11. 1 2 "Jumana Manna: Break, Take, Erase, Tally | Wexner Center for the Arts". wexarts.org. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  12. ↑ "Natalia Brizuela and Julia Bryan-Wilson on the art of Jumana Manna". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  13. ↑ "Jumana Manna". MoMA PS1. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  14. ↑ Hochberg, Gil (1 May 2018). "Archival Afterlives in a Conflict Zone: Animating the Past in Jumana Manna's Cinematic Fables of Pre-1948 Palestine". Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 38 (1). doi:10.1215/1089201x-4389955. S2CID   149558070 – via 30–42.
  15. ↑ Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen. "Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Jumana Manna's Wild Relatives (2017)". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
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