I AM WITH HER, from the series, ‘The River of Life.’ Lara Baladi in collaboration with Bokja Design (Hoda Baroudi and Maria Hibri). Embroidery and appliqués on mixed textiles based on a photomontage by Lara Baladi. 260X210CM. Beirut, Lebanon, 2021.
Lara Baladi
2015-16 Ida Ely Rubin Artist in Residence at CAST
2021 Fay Chandler Creativity Grant
Archiving revolution
About
Lara Baladi is an Egyptian-Lebanese multidisciplinary artist, archivist, and educator. Her ongoing initiative Vox Populi: Tahrir Archives includes a series of media initiatives, artworks, publications, and an open-source timeline and portal into web-based archives of the 2011 Egyptian revolution and other global social movements. Informed by critical investigations into historical archives and the study of popular visual culture, Baladi’s work questions the theoretical divide between myth and reality and the cycles inherent to history.
Baladi received a Fay Chandler Creativity Grant in 2021 from the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology to publish her research in an online archive, Anatomy of Revolution, and was appointed as the Ida Ely Rubin Artist in Residence at CAST in 2015-16. Baladi also received a fellowship from the Open Documentary Lab in 2014 and has been a lecturer in the Art, Culture, and Technology program at MIT since 2015.
Biography: Art, Culture, and Technology Program at MIT
Events and Exhibitions
2021
Fay Chandler Creativity Grant
Anatomy of Revolution
2015–present
Lecturer in the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
2015–16
Ida Ely Rubin Artist in Residence, MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology
2014
MIT Open Documentary Lab Fellow
In the Media
ArteEast: Artist Spotlight with Lara Baladi
Hasselblad Foundation: Dear Truth: Interview with the artists
Ibraaz: Archiving a Revolution in the Digital Age, Archiving as an Act of Resistance
Hyperallergic: A Sprawling Tapestry’s Surreal Visions of Egypt
Transmediale: Anxious to Act
The Washington Post: Artist Lara Baladi helps unravel the mysteries of her 29-foot-long tapestry ‘Oum el Dounia,’ on view at Sackler
Smithsonian: Contemporary Art Installation at Smithsonian’s Sackler Gallery Explores Images of Egypt
Muftah: Lara Baladi: On Tahrir, Memory, and Archiving the Revolution
Ibraaz: Beyond the Image: A Project by Lara Baladi with an introduction by Dorothea Schoene
Zenith Foundation: Lara Baladi: Domestic Excess and Recycling
Creative Time Reports: Lara Baladi
Guernica Magazine: Lara Baladi: Alone, Together