Marwa Arsanios
Kunsthalle Lissabon
Kunsthalle Lissabon began the year with a new space, and with the first solo exhibition in Lisbon of Lebanese artist Marwa Arsanios. “Notes for a choreography” presented Arsanios’s latest video, Olga’s Notes, all those restless bodies, 2014, commissioned by Kunsthalle Lissabon and Art in General in New York. The work was projected in dialogue with I’ve Heard Stories, an animation from 2008.
Arsanios’s work is rooted in her fascination with placewhether understood by way of an architectural landmark or a historical anecdotewhich she links to themes of decolonization, the politics of