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Qatar

Past Resident
2023: Fire Station - Qatar Museums

Artist

Ebtisam Alsaffar

Ebtisam Alsaffar’s paintings adhere to the ideals of Abstract Expressionist art, employing spontaneous and bold brushstrokes. She attempts to convey the essence of the human face by employing vibrant colors and gestural techniques.

Ebtisam Alsaffar has exhibited work at Qatari Contemporary Art, UNESCO, Paris; Mediterranean Contemporary Art Symposium, Morocco; and Arabic Arts Symposium, Sudan, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2023 Fall Open Studios

November 10–November 11, 2023

Ebtisam Alsaffar, absent, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 12 × 16 in. (30.48 × 40.64 cm).

Residents from Qatar

Adriane de Souza

Qatar, Brazil

Fire Station - Qatar Museums

Studio #209

Dana Agal

United States, Qatar

Fire Station - Qatar Museums

2025

Fouz Saif

Qatar

Fire Station - Qatar Museums

2024

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South Korea

Past Resident
2023: DOOSAN Art Center

Artist

Sol Enae Lee

Sol Enae Lee’s work is centered on translation and language semantics, articulating things that cannot be stated in words. She investigates performative and often ephemeral aspects such as movement, music, and light to reflect the constraints of language. Text functions as a point of departure for her work and goes through a continual translation process across multiple media in order to embody texts indifferently and open up spaces.

Sol Enae Lee has exhibited work at Bradwolff Project, The Netherlands; BAK basis voor actuele kunst, The Netherlands; and Venice International Performance Art Week, Italy, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2023 Fall Open Studios

November 10–November 11, 2023

The installation view of two sound-image converts devices and spectrograms for performance. Of those two devices, one is made of a mirror, vibration speaker and laser light and the other is made of a metal cup with a rubber lid and laser lights combined on a flat wooden stick which is hung like a swing.

Sol Enae Lee, so you should play on a swing-Project Fire is Scary, 2021, installation view, sound-image converts devices devices and spectrogram for the performance.

The performer is sitting on the ground and reading the text to the device, which shows the vibration of the voice. The device is made of a metal cup with a rubber lid and laser lights combined on a flat wooden stick hung like a swing.

Sol Enae Lee, so you should play on a swing-Project Fire is Scary, 2021, performance, sound-image converts devices devices and spectrogram for the performance, 15 min.

Two old printer parts have two roller bars and one handle to rotate the rollers to make the papers out. Printed spectrograms are installed between the rollers, and leftover spectrograms are connected and shaped paper-roll aside. There is a white wooden panel describing the score for using devices and spectrogram with a phone app.

Sol Enae Lee, Fire is scary-Project Fire is Scary, 2020, spectrogram reading performance, two parts of an old printing machine and score.

The diagram on the wall contains simple shapes, arrows, and text. One visitor is passing by, reading the poster booklet of the project

Sol Enae Lee, 35 word, 2020, wall drawing and poster-booklet.

The stair image posters in the space stick vertically on the wall from the bottom to the ceiling. The real stairs are next to the wall, and one performer is reading the instruction standing on the stairs to the other performer, who wears a glitter hat with stars stuck on it. The hat-wearing performer is jumping in front of the stairs.

Sol Enae Lee, 35 word-Pieces of Choreography to Fly, 2020, performance.

Residents from South Korea

Hannah Woo

South Korea

DOOSAN Art Center

Studio #304

Sinae Yoo

South Korea

DOOSAN Art Center

Studio #216

Ailyn Lee

United States, South Korea

Anonymous

2025

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United States

Past Resident
2023: Vision Fund

Artist

Miatta Kawinzi

Miatta Kawinzi is a Kenyan-Liberian-American multidisciplinary artist working with sculptural installation, still and moving images, the voice and body, gesture, language, objects, space and sound to explore practices of re-imagining the self, identity, place, and culture through abstraction and poetics. Their work engages interior and exterior landscapes to illuminate themes of inter-connectivity, hybridity, diaspora, and queered temporalities. Kawinzi’s practice is informed by embodied research and an investment in the language of gesture as an expressive tool.

Miatta Kawinzi has exhibited work at PS122 Gallery; The Africa Center; and CUE Art Foundation, all in New York, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Miatta Kawinzi and Alicia Grullón

November 28, 2023, 6–8pm

2023 Fall Open Studios

November 10–November 11, 2023

Four black-and-white photographic prints on fabric are hung from the ceiling; they show a Black figure in various poses of reaching.

Miatta Kawinzi, to trust the air might hold us, 2023, series, four photographic prints on fabric, dimensions variable.

A black-and-white photograph with a Black figure with an outstretched arm standing between tall, dense trees.

Miatta Kawinzi, to trust the air might hold us, 2023, series, archival pigment print.

A video projection of brown hands reaching downwards in front of a blue sky and sliver of a brick building is reflected on a silver mylar floor with three rocking chairs.

Miatta Kawinzi, SHE GATHER ME, 2021, HD color video, 16mm color film transferred to video with two-channel audio, three wooden rocking chairs and silver mylar floor, dimensions variable.