The Diary of a Sky (2024)

Lawrence Abu Hamdan (Jordan/Lebanon/England) is an artist born in Amman, Jordan in 1985. The hybrid nature of the artist’s practice—which spans audiovisual installations, lecture performances, audio archives, photography, films and text—is concerned with the “politics of listening” and confronting specific instances and examples of listening and the voice as they relate to legal and political contexts. Abu Hamdan frequently works with human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, Defense for Children International, Forensic Architecture, and with international prosecutors to obtain aural testimonies for legal and historical investigations. He received his PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London (2017). Notable solo exhibitions of his work have been held at venues including Van Abbemuseum, São Paulo Art Biennial, Sharjah Art Foundation, Tate Modern, Hammer Museum, and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art. His films have screened at festivals around the world, including Toronto International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and Visions du Réel. His work is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, and Museo Reina Sofía, among other institutions. He was a Fellow of Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School (2105–17), was a resident at DAAD Artists Program in Berlin (2017–18), and has received a Nam June Paik New Media Award (2016), the Turner Prize (2019), and the Edvard Munch Award (2020). Lawrence Abu Hamdan : (inaudible) : a politics of listening in 4 acts was published by Sternberg Press (2016). He lives and works in Beirut, Lebanon.