Thank you for joining us in an exploration of Ghada Amer’s work through this blog. Once a month, we will feature a brief entry examining one or several of Ghada Amer’s artworks by established and emerging art critics and art lovers. Each entry will encourage us to push further our habitual ways of reading and of looking as it invites us to consider new ways of reading Ghada Amer’s multifaceted production.
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The Screen: Ghada Amer’s curtain call for domesticity
The shadowy outline of the two backlight figures gives them an air of mystery: these lovers’ stories are as opaque as their silhouettes. The functional


Pensées Sculptées
Commençons par un petit jeu! Devinez ce que je vois.Avec mes yeux d’espion, je vois … une pile de couleurAvec mes yeux d’espion, je vois


Sculpted Thought
Let’s play a little game, shall we? Guess what I am seeing. I spy with my little eye … a pile of colorsI spy with


La Voix de la femme est révolution (2022)
Si elle est connue principalement pour ses peintures brodées, sa céramique et ses sculptures en acier et en bronze, Ghada Amer a néanmoins créé des


A Woman’s Voice is Revolution (2022)
Though known primarily for her embroidered painting, ceramics, and stainless steel and bronze sculptures, Ghada Amer has been making garden sculptures since 1997, that is


Ghada Amer’s Paravent Girls
Larger than life, the women on Ghada Amer’s paravents emerge from bronze panels in raised lines that give a tactile element to each piece. On


My Body, my Choice: Ghada Amer’s May 2022 solo show at the Goodman Gallery, London
4 May 2022 – 28 May 2022 Ghada Amer’s show at Goodman Gallery in London opens on 4 May 2022 and runs till the end


Once Upon a Happily Ever After
Ghada Amer’s garden installation titled Happily Ever After is a circle of rose bushes and jasmine flowers spelling out the notorious final three words of


Love Park, a one-act play
Characters Participant A as Lover a Participant B as Lover b The scene takes place in Santa Fe’s Love Park, in 1999. There is a


Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Barbie Trees (2007) is a disenchanting fairy tale. It tells the story of how princesses become Barbie dolls and how princes are abandoned. In so


Ecofelicity and the Gardens of Ghada Amer
Ecofelicity—happiness of the human individual, composed of organic food, a healthy blood oxygen level, regenerative sleep, lodging and ecological clothing, homeopathic medicine, nearby family and


Modern Millefleurs – Part II
The original installation of Ghada Amer’s Women’s Qualities gardens took shape in Pusan, South Korea, in 2000. At the Metropolitan Museum of Pusan, Ghada Amer
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