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SUMMARY:i look to the skies | Jude Abu Zaineh
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At its center is Maqlouba\, a traditional dish that is always shared\, an emblem of hospitality and community of great cultural and historical significance. Maqlouba anchors the work as a layered metaphor for diasporic life\, where food becomes ritual\, soft power\, and cultural preservation\, its ceremonial nature binding intimacy to sovereignty. Here\, Maqlouba becomes an archive\, a vessel for memory\, and a catalyst for transformation. Abu Zaineh works across disciplines including bioart\, video\, sculpture\, and textiles\, layering methods and materials into an evolving constellation of meaning. \nThe gallery unfolds like a contemplative space\, where patterns repeat across engraved architectural forms\, textiles\, glass\, and wallpaper\, enveloping the visitor in a language of visual rhythm and embrace. Archival videos thread through the installation\, carrying gestures\, voices\, and memories forward as acts of preservation within a landscape of erasure. Some of these patterns are cultivated in petri dishes from the remnants of Maqlouba\, from foraged plants\, soil\, and other fragments of everyday life. In these contained microcosms\, transformation\, migration\, and decay occur in parallel\, creating a living metaphor for the shifting nature of culture and identity. The petri dish becomes both container and containment\, a quiet stage for cycles of preservation and loss. \nTo look to the skies is to enact a gesture both intimate and universal: in prayer\, in grief\, screaming\, in disbelief\, in wonder. This pseudo-sanctuary invites contemplation while also confronting the realities of exile\, migration\, and displacement\, holding space for both refuge and unraveling. The works here are steeped in the tensions between comfort and disquiet\, belonging and estrangement\, sanctity and the secular. They carry the emotional weight of Palestinian life under colonial violence while offering a horizon\, reminding us that wherever we are\, we stand beneath the same celestial canopy. Abu Zaineh invites an encounter where the culturally personal and the planetary\, the grounded and the infinite\, exist in fragile contradictions.[/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]\nOpening Reception and Artist Talk\nCelebrate our Fall Exhibitions1\nSaturday\, September 6 at 1:00-3:00pm\nJude Abu Zaineh Exhibition Tour: 1:00-1:45pm \nPlease join us on September 6 from 1:00 -3:00 pm for a relaxed reception to celebrate MSVU Art Gallery’s Fall exhibitions\,  i look to the skies| Jude Abu Zaineh and Prospect 20: Ceaseless | Silas Wamsley. The artists will be present. The event will start with an exhibition tour by Jude Abu Zaineh. Light refreshments will be served. All are welcome to attend! \n  \n[/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line”][divider line_type=”No Line”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/1117798678?share=copy#t=1″ css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]\nAbout the Artist\nJude Abu Zaineh is a Palestinian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist-curator working across art\, food\, science\, and technology studies. Her work develops counter-archive practices and investigates themes of culture\, displacement\, storytelling\, diaspora\, and belonging\, through de-colonial and feminist perspectives. She examines ideals of home and community influenced by her childhood and upbringing in Southwest Asia. \nAbu Zaineh is the recipient of several awards including\, the 2020 William and Meredith Saunderson Prizes for Emerging Artists\, and was one of the first selected artists to participate in a collaborative residency with the Ontario Science Centre and MOCA Toronto (Canada). She has presented her works at Ireland Glass Biennale; Malta Society of Arts\, Valletta\, Malta; Cultivamos Cultura\, São Luis\, Portugal; Museu de Arte\, Arquitetura e Tecnologia\, Lisbon\, Portugal; Centro de Cultura Digital\, Mexico City\, Mexico; SVA\, NYC\, USA; Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco\, USA; Forest City Gallery\, London\, Canada; Art Gallery of Windsor\, Canada; Centre Culturel Canadien\, Paris\, France; Museum London\, Canada; Museum of Glass\, Washington\, USA\, and more. \nHer work has been featured in VICE Arabia\, PBS\, NPR\, across CBC Canada platforms\, Canadian Art magazine\, NEUES GLAS-NEW GLASS: art & architecture magazines\, and on the cover of fuse: the Museum of Glass Magazine. \nAbu Zaineh’s works can be found in the permanent collections of The Museum of Glass (USA)\, Art Windsor-Essex (Canada)\, The City of Windsor’s Public Art Commission (Canada)\, as well as private collections internationally. \nShe received an MFA from the University of Windsor (Canada) and a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY\, USA)\, where she was an RPI Humanities\, Arts\, & Social Sciences Fellow and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellow. \nShe maintains an active studio practice between upstate NY\, USA and southern Ontario\, Canada.[/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”21299″ image_size=”large” max_width=”50%” max_width_mobile=”default” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”None” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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