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Short biography 2009 – Oreet Ashery is a London based, interdisciplinary visual artist. Ashery’s practice engages with socio-political paradigms and tends to include participatory and delegated elements. Interested in notions of subjectivity and authenticity, Ashery will frequently produce work as a male character. Those have included; an orthodox Jewish man, an Arab man, a black man, a Norwegian postman, a large farmer and most recently a false messiah. Ashery exhibits, performs, intervenes and screens her work extensively in an international context, both in highly established art contexts, as well as in highly experimental public spaces or situations. Ashery’s work has been discussed in numerous art, academic and cultural publications and books, in various languages. Ashery had published three books in 2009; The Novel of Nonel and Vovel, a joint graphic novel and an expanded project with the artist Larissa Sansour (Charta), Dancing with Men; interactive performances, interactions and other artworks (Live Art Development Agency), and Staying; Dream, Bin, Soft Stud and Other Stories (Artangel), a particaporty project with women seeking asylum in the UK due to their sexual orientation. Ashery is an AHRC fellow in the drama department at Queen Mary University, she takes parts in talks and panel discussions on a regular basis and has been engaged with educational work and projects in the public sphere for many years.
Long biography – Oreet Ashery is a London based, context-responsive, visual artist working in live art, performance, digital media, images, writing and objects. The work looks at personal politics and their complex relationship to social realities. Ashery’s work set to explore the possibilities to expand the discourse around subjectivity and practice. The work tends to be complex, but at the same time humorous and accessible to a wide variety of audiences and communities. Events are mostly interactive with audience participation that can be an audience of 500 people or 1.
Frequently Ashery will produce work as a fictional male character in order to respond to contested socio political realities. Her characters include a black man, a Norwegian postman, a fat farmer and an Arab man, among others. Marcus Fisher, an orthodox Jewish man has been Ashery’s most consistent character and alter ego. Recently Ashery developed a new character based on the controversial 17th century false messiah Shabbtai Zvi. Throughout his life Shabbtai conducted a series of ‘Strange Acts’ akin to much performance work. He converted from Judaism to Islam later on in life.
Ashery has a particular interest in the intersection of gender and Jewishness, in recent years within the Arab and Islamic contexts, as well as the ‘Orient’. Since 2004 Ashery has been engaged with the project Welcome Home encompassing collaborative and individual projects that mainly look at aspects of the Palestinian Right to Return within an anti occupation remit.
Ashery’s work has been shown extensively in the UK and internationally in museums, galleries, cinemas, festivals and site-specific locations. Most recently at: Brooklyn Museum, Pompidou Centre, Whitstable Biennial, EDS Gallery, Mexico City, Tate Modern, Freud museum, OK Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz, Bodhi Gallery, NYC, ZKM centre for Art and Media, Germany.
Ashery’s work has been published and discussed in numerous books, academic and art publications in many languages including: Bidoun, Frieze, Art Monthly, Art Forum, Contemporary, Time Out, the Village Voice, Circa, Flash Art, Dazed & Confused, Map, Heeb, Sleezenation among others. And in books including Art Tomorrow, Art in the Age of Terrorism, Blasphemy and Biographies and Space.
Ashery has been given public talks about her works at the ICA, Whitechapel, Gallery, Tate Modern, Royal Academy, Goldsmith College, Chelsea College, among others. Ashery has been engaged with educational work for years, including numerous community-based projects.
Ashery is currently a three years AHRC creative fellow at Queen Mary University Drama Department.
Ashery has been a board member of the live art organisation Home for the past six years.
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