Kristine Khouri is a researcher, writer, and curator. Rasha Salti is a film theorist, curator, art writer, and researcher.
"Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salti have uncovered an extraordinary
lost history, not simply of one exhibition but several artistic
networks of international solidarity, from Palestine to Chile,
Poland to South Africa, that once made up the international
cultural landscape."-- "The Financial Times"
"Using innovative methodologies for Art history by capturing the
contacts and ramifications of a history of transnational political
and artistic solidarities, the book initiates a new chapter in the
investigation that was launched in 2008 by the re-discovery of the
1978 exhibition catalogue. From conflicts in Latin America to the
political and artistic contestation of the Apartheid, this
prospective research recounts the history of museums in exile, from
the donation of works in support of the creation of art museum and
the recognition of oppressed peoples by international artists. The
commitment to these causes by artistic communities, works and
exhibitions are conceptualized as tools of resistance that create
spaces of hospitality, fragments of exiled museums through
travelling shows that 'restore rejected narratives, a necessary
effort for building a holistic picture of history, [...] [that]
revive at least fragments or strains of alternative narratives
about the shape of international exchange and interpersonal
solidarity.' Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salti, by blending together
personal narratives and accounts, translated historical texts,
essays and archives, not only bring 'visibility to marginalized art
history and forgotten exhibitions; [they] also [revive] a recent
past, a time when militant artists brought art to the heart of
political action.'"-- "Critique d'art"
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