Landscapes in Abeyance

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Alia Farid works at the intersection of art and architecture. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from La Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico (Viejo San Juan), a Master of Science in Visual Studies from the Visual Arts Program at MIT (Cambridge, MA), and a Master in Museum Studies and Critical Theory from the Programa d’Estudis Independents at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA).

She began making work somewhere in between art, architecture, and urban anthropology. She is still interested in these areas, but with a much more focused point of view in telling how informal networks are forced to make up for a lack of formal structure. One of the things she values most is the subversive quality of work that goes unnoticed.

Alia’s most ambitious project to date has been curating the Pavilion of Kuwait at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, which – despite its appearance at la Biennale di Venezia – placed an emphasis on what participating locally might induce in an environment driven by ideologies incongruent with critical and aesthetic thought.

She has completed residencies at Beta Local (San Juan), Casa Árabe in conjunction with Delfina Foundation (Córdoba), Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art (Doha), Davidoff Art Initiative (Altos de Chavón), Serpentine Galleries (London), Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), and marra.tein (Beirut).