Overview

Spanning film, photography, print, installation, publication and textile, Bouchra Khalili’s work centres around collaborations with members of communities rendered invisible by the nation-state. Her collaborators act as ‘civil poets’ who merge the personal and collective, and, together with the artist, develop alternative ways of witnessing history. Neither fiction nor documentary,  Khalili’s work interweaves varied visual and sonic materials, formulating hypotheses for new emancipatory forms of belonging. This booklet elaborates upon the works included in the exhibition Between Circles and Constellations, which surveys art produced by the Morocco-born artist over the past 15 years and bears witness to what the artist calls ‘radical citizenship’: an unconditional conception of community freed from normative notions of identity.