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Jumana Emil Abboud, Four Dwellers by the Well, 2022. Watercolour on paper, 57 × 76 cm. Image: Mike Bolam.

Artes Mundi 11 (AM11) with Presenting Partner: Bagri Foundation, will for the second time be presented across Wales at five nationwide venues, Aberystwyth Arts Centre in Aberystwyth; National Museum Cardiff and Chapter in Cardiff; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea, and Mostyn in Llandudno, providing even greater opportunities for national and international audiences to experience the show. The AM11 exhibition will comprise significant solo presentations of new and existing work of six of the world’s most important international contemporary artists.

Artes Mundi 11 @ Mostyn: Jumana Emil Abboud

Jumana Emil Abboud’s practice seeks to unlock connections between people, characterised through examinations of oral histories in relation to landscape as sites of memory and imagination, despite often conflicted and political contexts. Since 2020, this centres on an expanding body of works rooted in collaborative Water Divining production and community workshops. Drawing, sculpture, video and spoken-word performance are used to address how water sources are globally liminal places. Steeped in folklore and associations with the supernatural, they survive contemporary changes in land use, occupation and dispossession, and community life.  Myths and storytelling are drawn upon to celebrate local and shared heritage and identify interconnectedness between people.