Keli Safia Maksud
Keli Safia Maksud is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working in sound, sculpture, installation, text, printmaking and embroidery. Concerned with histories of colonial encounters and its effects on memory, Maksud’s practice favors the space of in-between and its threshold and works towards destabilizing received histories in order to expose fictions of the state.
Maksud earned her BFA in Painting from the Ontario College of Art and Design University, a Diploma in Art and Curatorial Studies at the New Centre for Research and Practice and an MFA in Visual Arts at Columbia University. Her work has shown at Goodman Gallery, Cue Art Foundation, Salon 94, Huxley Parlour, the Bamako Biennial, National Museum of Contemporary Art – Seoul, and the Biennial of Contemporary Art Sesc_Videobrasil. Maksud’s work has been supported through fellowships and grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Council for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. Her writing has been published in OCULA Magazine, the Swiss
Institute, LEAP Magazine and A Space Gallery.
(our) making / unmaking / making / unmaking, 2023. Embroidery and Drawing on Carbon Paper, Metal Stud, Metal Tracks. Photo courtesy of the artist.
They Try Their Tongues, 2022. Light, Sound and Sculptural Installation, 8:00 minutes looped sound. Photo courtesy of the artist.
old blues, new bruises, 2023. Embroidery on Carbon Paper, Light and Sound Installation. Photo courtesy of the artist.
if I say the sky's small arithmetic its inscription, its echo, 2023. Embroidery and Drawing on Carbon Paper, Metal Stud, Metal Tracks. Photo courtesy of the artist.
how then do you position yourself?, 2023. Embroidery and Drawing on Carbon Paper, Unistrut Channel. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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