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Postcard Features: Areej Kaoud’s Bideesh Batteekh (I Don’t Want Watermelon), 2020

Bio:

Areej Kaoud is a Palestinian visual artist raised in Gaza, Palestine and Montreal, Canada. Her practice draws on her interest in a variety of narratives and disastrous scenarios. Kaoud’s practice incorporates text, sound, performance and installation to comment on emergency provisions and their enactment. Kaoud’s projects articulate the distance between anxiety, vigilance and even humour which are all a part of the preparations undertaken for non-immediate threats.

Kaoud’s most recent performance in the UK was at the Tate Modern in Tate Exchange in January 2018. In 2019, she was commissioned by the New York University Art Gallery to produce a large-scale sculpture titled Unknown Safety 2019 and the recordings An Escalation (2016-Ongoing). Kaoud’s work has been shown at Delfina Foundation, Art Dubai, Bolivia Biennale, ISCP New York, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, The Hangar, JPFN Museum and Satellite in AlSerkal Avenue.

Kaoud completed an MFA at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, and a second masters in Fine Art Curating at Goldsmiths College. Kaoud has worked as an Adjunct Professor at American University of Sharjah and copy editor at Sharjah Art Foundation. She currently lives and works between Sharjah and London.