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Open Studio and Walkthrough of Sa'dia Rehman: Desire Lines
Sat, Jul 22
|KODA/RU House #404b on Colonels Row
Open Studio with Sa'dia Rehman, closing their KODA artist residency under Borders + Boundaries theme. Followed by Walkthrough with Sa'dia Rehman of solo exhibition with new body of work tracing their family’s displacement from village in Pakistan in 1968-1976.
Time & Location
Jul 22, 2023, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
KODA/RU House #404b on Colonels Row, Governors Island, New York, NY 11231, USA
About the Event
Join us for Walkthrough with artist Sa'dia Rehman of their solo exhibition at KODA/RU House #404B on Colonels Row, Governors Island, on Saturday, July 22 at 3-4pm. Arrive early for a tour of the studio where Sa'dia Rehman will be present starting 9am.
KODA presents a solo exhibition and three-month residency with Queens-born multimedia artist Sa’dia Rehman. Rehman’s solo show titled Desire Lines will feature a video, works on paper, and an evolving installation. For the past three years, Rehman has been working on a new body of work tracing their family’s displacement from their village in Pakistan. Between 1968 and 1976, the family, along with 184 villages were forced to migrate due to the construction of the Tarbela Dam, the second largest earth-filled dam in the world. Like many dam projects in the Global South, the project was funded by the World Bank. This hydroelectric infrastructure was built by…