Insider's Picks: Salma Tuqan
SALMA TUQAN
Insider’s Picks: Salma Tuqan is a contemporary art and design curator and Deputy Director of Delfina Foundation (London).
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Salma Tuqan is a Contemporary art and design curator and Deputy Director of Delfina Foundation (London). Prior to Delfina Foundation she was the Contemporary Middle East Curator at the V&A for eight years, where she was responsible for Middle Eastern art and design programming at the museum.
She has contributed to other projects as an independent curator and facilitator, including Palestine c/o Venice at the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009) and the Wind Tunnel Project in Farnborough (2014). She works closely with cultural organisations on strategy and is a committee member of the Arab Image Foundation (Beirut), The Palestinian Museum (Birzeit), The Khatt Foundation (Amsterdam), and Strategic Advisor to NuMu (Guatemala City).
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The following text is from the Future Fair Online May 25, 2020 newsletter guest edited by Salma Tuqan:
Dear Friends,
As new realities sink in, these projects have inspired and lifted me, as I hope they might for you too.
@radioalhara has been my favourite companion during daily rituals. Launched in Bethlehem five days post lockdown, it broadcasts the sweetest world beats alongside ramblings by chefs, folk tales and musings. In a collective moment of rootedness @Infrasonica, a digital platform of non-western cultures offers contemplation on sound, silence and listening, alongside Julia Watson’s eye-opening book Lo-TEK Design by Radical Indigenism and Bruce Chatwin’s Songlines.
The effect of COVID-19 on the informal economy and those relying on daily wages is immense. Addressing this, Carlos Amorales @estudioamorales has commissioned local seamstresses to produce and distribute reusable face-masks for workers across Mexico City. The role of design in tackling today’s most urgent issues is ever more profound, a call taken up by designers, communities and citizens. @paolaantonelli and @alice.rawsthorn have been profiling this through weekly Instagram conversations on @design.emergency
There have been countless innovative and warm-hearted initiatives including: #ArtistPledge, NADA’s Gallery Relief Fund and NaTAkallam which hires refugees as online tutors and translators.
Lastly, in keeping with Delfina Foundation’s Family Lunch traditions, I’m leaving you with our first home delivery. Click here to enjoy!
Warm regards,
Salma
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Beers London: Milo Matthieu, Uptown (2020), Oilstick, Foam Core & Acrylic on Wooden Panel, 76x102cm
Beers London: Milo Matthieu, Portraits of a Past Memory (2020), Oilstick, Foam Core & Acrylic on Wooden Panel, 61x51cm.jpg
Sean Horton (presents): Kalup Linzy, Us and Us, 2019, Gouache and photo collage on canvas, 12 × 16 in, 30.5 × 40.6 cm
Tatjana Pieters: Anneke Eussen, Rewind, 2020, 5 car panes, 34 3/5 × 37 in, 88 × 94 cm
ANNA ZORINA GALLERY: Looking for something other than this, 2019, Oil, acrylic, enamel, charcoal on canvas, 45 3/4 × 31 1/2 in, 116.2 × 80 cm
ANNA ZORINA GALLERY: Jordan Kerwick, Two Weeks Tops, 2020, Oil, acrylic, spray paint, oil stick, graphite on canvas, 47 1/5 × 39 2/5 in, 119.9 × 100.1 cm
El Apartamento: Orestes Hernández Palacios (CU), Good morning, 2020, Polychromed wood carving, 14 1/5 × 5 3/10 × 6 7/10 in, 35.6 × 12.7 × 15.2 cm
El Apartamento: Reynier Leyva Novo, FC V No.2, 2016-2020, Ultrachrome imprint on Baryta paper 300 g, 22 4/5 × 46 1/2 in, 58 × 118 cm, Editions 1-3 of 3 + 2AP
Elijah Wheat Showroom: Clive Murphy, Urbana, 2019, Deconstructed found cardboard, industrial ink, spray paint & hard maple lacquered frame w/ UV Plexi., 11 1/2 × 13 3/4 × 1 1/2 in, 29.2 × 34.9 × 3.8 cm