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Joana Choumali

Fresh Art International

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Henry James

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SECCIÓ. Coses del Món. Gemma Parellada. L'exposició de Joana Choumali, fotògrafa

Can photography heal trauma? In spring 2016, gunmen opened fire at a beach resort in Grand-Bassam, Cote d’Ivoire. Three weeks after the event, Joana Choumali visited a city in mourning, taking photos on an iPhone and then later embroidering them to create a hopeful resilient look at the process of healing. This Special Edition episode features for the first time the full interview with Prix Pictet 'Hope' winner Joana Choumali first partly released in 2020. 

Can photography heal trauma? In spring 2016, gunmen opened fire at a beach resort in Grand-Bassam, Cote d’Ivoire. Three weeks after the event, Joana Choumali visited a city in mourning, taking photos on an iPhone and then later embroidering them to create a hopeful resilient look at the process of healing. This Special Edition episode features for the first time the full interview with Prix Pictet 'Hope' winner Joana Choumali first partly released in 2020.

Special Edition: Joana Choumali

Deborah Barkun

Today’s conversation continues our Playlist series. We’re inviting artists, curators, architects, writers, filmmakers, cultural producers and other listeners to introduce episodes from our archive. Based in the United States, art historian and curator Deborah Barkun is Chair of the Department of Art and Art History and Director of Museum Studies at Ursinus College, outside Philadelphia. Her research centers on the social dynamics of artistic collaboration. Barkun is contributing to our stories from the 58th Venice Art Biennale. Here, she introduces our conversation with Ivorian artist Joana Choumali, first released on April 30, 2018. Deborah Barkun writes: I am excited to introduce this reprise of “Joana Choumali Embroiders Empathy.” I feel especially connected to this episode, as I was present for Cathy’s first interview with Choumali in the Ivory Coast Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. Choumali spoke poignantly about African emigration and the emptiness it leaves in the hearts of loved ones left behind. Her hand-embroidered and collaged photographic diptychs depict this global migration. Loose threads left dangling from the works speak to a sense of ongoing longing. Sound Editor: Anamnesis Audio | Photography: Deborah Barkun Related Episodes: Joana Choumali Embroiders Empathy, Sounds of the 57th Venice Art Biennale, Samson Young: Songs for Disaster Relief, Lisa Reihana on Reversing the Colonial Gaze, Monument to Decay: Israeli Pavilion in Venice, Mark Bradford Connects Art with the Real World Related Links: Joana Choumali, Ivory Coast Pavilion, Venice Art Biennale, Dak’Art 2018

Today’s conversation continues our Playlist series. We’re inviting artists, curators, architects, writers, filmmakers, cultural producers and other listeners to introduce episodes from our archive. Based in the United States, art historian and curator Deborah Barkun is Chair of the Department of Art and Art History and Director of Museum Studies at Ursinus College, outside Philadelphia. Her research centers on the social dynamics of artistic collaboration. Barkun is contributing to our stories from the 58th Venice Art Biennale. Here, she introduces our conversation with Ivorian artist Joana Choumali, first released on April 30, 2018. Deborah Barkun writes: I am excited to introduce this reprise of “Joana Choumali Embroiders Empathy.” I feel especially connected to this episode, as I was present for Cathy’s first interview with Choumali in the Ivory Coast Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. Choumali spoke poignantly about African emigration and the emptiness it leaves in the hearts of loved ones left behind. Her hand-embroidered and collaged photographic diptychs depict this global migration. Loose threads left dangling from the works speak to a sense of ongoing longing. Sound Editor: Anamnesis Audio | Photography: Deborah Barkun Related Episodes: <a href="https://freshartinternational.com/2018/04/30/joana-choumali-embroiders-empathy/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Joana Choumali Embroiders Empathy</a>, <a href="https://freshartinternational.com/2017/05/17/live-radio-sounds-from-the-venice-biennale-2017/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sounds of the 57th Venice Art Biennale</a>, <a href="https://freshartinternational.com/2017/11/02/samson-young-songs-disaster-relief/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Samson Young: Songs for Disaster Relief</a>, <a href="https://freshartinternational.com/2017/10/19/lisa-reihana-reversing-colonial-gaze/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lisa Reihana on Reversing the Colonial Gaze</a>, <a href="https://freshartinternational.com/2018/07/16/monument-decay-israeli-pavilion-venice/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Monument to Decay: Israeli Pavilion in Venice</a>, <a href="https://freshartinternational.com/2018/09/24/mark-bradford-connects-art-real-world/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mark Bradford Connects Art with the Real World</a> Related Links: <a href="https://www.joanachoumali.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Joana Choumali</a>, <a href="https://www.joanachoumali.com/index.php/projects/mix-media/translation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ivory Coast Pavilion</a>, <a href="https://www.labiennale.org/en/art/2019/national-participations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Venice Art Biennale</a>, <a href="https://www.joanachoumali.com/index.php/projects/mix-media/ca-va-aller" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dak’Art 2018</a>

Art Historian Playlist: Deborah Barkun Listens to Joana Choumali

We follow artist Joana Choumali from the Ivory Coast Pavilion at the 57th Venice Art Bienniale to Dak'Art 2018, as she explores the shared experience of migration and violence in her birth country. Her embroidered photographs trace stories of loss and longing—depicting lone figures disappearing from home and reappearing in foreign environments, and giving shape to the emptiness left by the casualties of terrorism. Needle and thread express Choumali's empathy with the fraught human condition. Sound Editing: Anamnesis Audio | Photography: Joanna Choumali and Fresh Art International

We follow artist <a href="https://www.joanachoumali.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Joana Choumali</a> from the <a href="https://www.joanachoumali.com/index.php/projects/mix-media/translation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ivory Coast Pavilion</a> at the 57th Venice Art Bienniale to <a href="https://www.joanachoumali.com/index.php/projects/mix-media/ca-va-aller" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dak'Art 2018</a>, as she explores the shared experience of migration and violence in her birth country. Her embroidered photographs trace stories of loss and longing—depicting lone figures disappearing from home and reappearing in foreign environments, and giving shape to the emptiness left by the casualties of terrorism. Needle and thread express Choumali's empathy with the fraught human condition. Sound Editing: Anamnesis Audio | Photography: Joanna Choumali and Fresh Art International

Joana Choumali Embroiders Empathy