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SUMMARY:Gallery opening – Ghada Amer: A New World
LOCATION:Taplin Gallery – Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton
DESCRIPTION:Time: 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM\n\nGhada Amer: A New World\n\nOn View:
  October 10 – November 7\, 2026\nOpening Reception: Saturday\, October 10
 \, 3-5pm\nArtist talk + seated dinner: Friday\, October 9\, 6-9pm (ticket
 s sold out)\n\nGhada Amer: A New World\, marks the artist’s conclusion of
  a three-year Anne Reeves Artist-in-Residence at the Arts Council of Prin
 ceton\, generously supported by Timothy M. Andrews. It is both record of 
 that residency and reflection on our relationship with Ghada Amer\, which
  began long before the residency itself. Since 2013\, I have had the priv
 ilege of working with Ghada as a teacher\, facilitator\, collaborator\, a
 nd\, increasingly\, as a witness to the ways in which her ideas have evol
 ved through clay. What began more than a decade ago as an experiment in a
  new material has become an extended conversation about art\, desire\, be
 auty\, failure\, and possibility.\n\nThe residency provided this conversa
 tion with a sustained place and time. Over three years\, Ghada returned a
 gain and again to the Arts Council\, testing forms\, materials\, gestures
 \, and ideas. Clay was never simply a new medium for Ghada\, but became a
  means of asking questions that had always been present throughout her pr
 actice. Through clay\, those questions were allowed to take on new physic
 al and conceptual dimensions. The works in this exhibition emerge from th
 is process of experimentation — they are evidence of not only what Ghada 
 physically created\, but of what can happen when an artist is given the t
 ime\, space\, resources\, and freedom to pursue an idea without knowing e
 xactly where it will lead. This is the whole philosophical point of our r
 esidency.\n\nA New World also represents a continuation rather than a con
 clusion. Ghada’s ceramic practice has developed over more than 13 years\,
  and the works presented here demonstrate an artist who remains unwilling
  to settle into a fixed vocabulary — to becoming a brand. The introductio
 n of new slab forms and vessels alongside the now-recognizable ceramic wa
 ll works reflects an ongoing restlessness. Clay continues to offer Ghada 
 a material through which she can resist resolution\, allowing gesture\, i
 mage\, and chance to remain in productive tension.\n\nAbout Ghada Amer:\n
 Ghada Amer was born in Cairo (Egypt) in 1963. In 1974\, her parents reloc
 ated to France where she began her artistic training ten years later at V
 illa Arson\, Nice\, France. She currently lives and works between New Yor
 k and Paris and has exhibited among others at the Venice Biennale\, the S
 ydney Biennale\, the Whitney Biennale\, and the Brooklyn Museum.\n\n“I be
 lieve that all women should like their bodies and use them as tools of se
 duction\,” Amer stated\; and in her well-known erotic embroideries\, she 
 at once rejects oppressive laws set in place to govern women’s attitudes 
 toward their bodies and repudiates first-wave feminist theory that the bo
 dy must be denied to prevent victimization. By depicting explicit sexual 
 acts with the delicacy of needle and thread\, their significance assumes 
 a tenderness that simple objectification ignores.\n\nGhada Amer continuou
 sly allows herself to explore the dichotomies of an uneasy world and conf
 ronts the language of hostility and finality with unsettled narratives of
  longing and love.\n\nGhada Amer’s work addresses first and foremost the 
 ambiguous\, transitory nature of the paradox that arises when searching f
 or concrete definitions of east and west\, feminine and masculine\, art a
 nd craft. Through her paintings\, sculptures and public garden projects\,
  Amer takes traditional notions of cultural identity\, abstraction\, and 
 religious fundamentalism and turns them on their heads.\n\nArtist website
 \n\nMore info: https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/gallery-opening-g
 hada-amer-a-new-world/
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