Aichi Triennale

Mirna Bamieh explores the politics of disappearance and memory production by unpacking the social concerns and limitations of Palestinian communities amid contemporary political dilemmas. With a degrees in visual arts, culinary arts and psychology/ sociology, she melds food and storytelling to develop socially engaged work through Palestine Hosting Society, a live art project she founded in 2018. Staging dinner performances and various interventions that draw from food practices as well as the passage of recipes through generations, the project aims to revitalize traditional Palestinian food cultures on the verge of disappearing. Starting 2019, with a need to look at personal history in relation to the collective, the artist has also been reflecting on the process of fermentation through text, sound, ceramics, drawings and video works incorporated into site-specific interactive installations. Her current installation projects around fermentation are the series of “Sour Things,” and “Bitter Things”.

Selected exhibitions

2024

Solo exhibition, Sour Things, Institute of Contemporary Arts at NYU Shanghai (China)/Nika Project Space (Paris, France)

2024

The Ecologies of Peace, TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía (Córdoba, Spain)

2023

Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present (UAE)

2017-18

Diaspora Now! – Contemporary Arts around the Homeland, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu (Japan)

2017

7 trans-phonies, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya (Japan)