Yara El-Sherbini, Other Forms of Regulation and Control, 2020. Plastic, metal, paper, ink, human hair, hydrothermographs, 8 x 16 x 33 inches.
Opening Reception with Yara El-Sherbini and Naeem Mohaiemen
Saturday, November 7, 12-5pm
Please join us for a day-long opening reception with artist Yara El-Sherbini and curator Naeem Mohaiemen in conjunction with El-Sherbini’s solo exhibition, Forms of Regulation and Control. Visitors can make appointments for 30-minute slots to view the exhibition, pick up a catalogue, and speak with the artist and curator. A maximum of 8 people will be admitted at a time.
El-Sherbini’s practice draws upon interactive artworks, using humor and play to reveal the social systems that produce unconscious bias. Her gallery interventions untangle the ways our environments are regulated, and gesture toward the biases inherent in speech, visualization, and surveillance.
Health and safety protocols for gallery visitors during opening reception
Visitors will be limited to no more than 8 people at a time. Masks or face coverings are mandatory upon entry. Stay six feet apart from others. An optional hands-free thermometer is available upon entry. Hand sanitizer will be available. Checklists and press releases are available on our website. Limited printed copies will be available upon inquiry. If you think you have a fever, have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 14 days, or have had close contact with anyone who is confirmed or suspected of having COVID-19, please don’t visit the gallery.
If there is space, walk-ins will be able to view the exhibition. We do not require appointments during regular gallery hours.
Access Notes
CUE Art Foundation is wheelchair accessible. There is an all-gender, ADA compliant, single-stall bathroom in the gallery. The space is not scent-free, but we do request that people attending come low-scent. The closest wheelchair accessible MTA subway stations are Penn Station and Herald Square Station. If you have additional access questions or needs, please contact info@cueartfoundation.org (ideally with at least 48 hours before the event) and we will do our best to accommodate you.
Yara El-Sherbini (b. Derby, works in Santa Barbara) works with humor, play, and irreverence through the forms of games, quizzes, advice, and puzzles disguised as installations. Recent exhibitions in London include Somerset House, Bloomsbury Festival, Tate, Hayward Gallery,The RCA, National Portrait Gallery, David Roberts Art Foundation, National Maritime Museum, Modern Art Oxford, The Victoria & Albert and Iniva. In Britain she has also exhibited work at Manchester Art Gallery; Arnolfini, Derby; IKON gallery, Bristol; and BALTIC, Birmingham. Other exhibitions include the Venice Biennale; Case Arabe, Cordoba; San Telmo Museum of Art, Madrid; ZKM, Germany; and Lombard-Freid Projects, New York. In 2021 she will be touring her public artwork, Arrivals + Departures, throughout the UK; and developing Kick Off, a social practice artwork with the National Trust, UK.
Naeem Mohaiemen (b. London, works in New York) combines essays, films, photography, and installations to research the idea of elusive utopias, shifting borders, rhizomatic families, and unreliable memory. His work exhibited at Mahmoud Darwish Museum (Ramallah), Bengal Foundation (Dhaka), SALT Beyoglu (Istanbul), Tate Britain (London), MoMA PS1 (New York), and documenta 14 (Athens/Kassel). He was a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, and a finalist for the 2018 Turner Prize and the 2019 Herb Alpert Award. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Lunder Institute of American Art, Maine, and on the board of Vera List Center for Art & Politics, New York, and the film council of ICA, London.