Past Disquiet at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris
Curators Rasha Salti and Kristine Khouri have assembled a formidable exhibition on museums and solidarity movements using art and protest.
Rasha Salti
Kristine Khouri is a researcher whose background is in Arab cultural history and art history. Her interests focus on the history of arts circulation, collection, exhibition, and infrastructure in the Middle East and North Africa as well as archival practice and knowledge dissemination. Most recently she has been focused on critical engagement with digital archives/digitized collections and issues that emerge from them including rights, access, and language. Khouri is a member of the board of the Arab Image Foundation, Beirut.
Rasha Salti is a researcher, writer and curator of art and film. She lives and works between Marseille and Beirut, and was previously based in Berlin. Salti has curated film programs worldwide, from MoMA in New York to Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. In 2011, she was one of the co-curators of the Sharjah Biennial. In 2015, she co-curated with Kristine Khouri the exhibition Past Disquiet: Narratives and Ghosts from the Exhibition of International Art for Palestine (Beirut, 1978), at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona (MACBA), and at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin, in 2016. She is the author and editor of numerous publications, including the book I Would Have Smiled: A Tribute to Myrtle Winter-Chaumeny with Issam Nassar, dedicated to the legacy of the British photographer and founder of the UNRWA photo archive.