Archive 2019-20
Alia Syed
- Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
- Start: Tue, 05 May 2020 17:15:00 BST
- End: Tue, 05 May 2020 18:30:00 BST
Alia Syed was born in Swansea, Wales and lives between London and Glasgow. She has been making experimental films in Britain for over 25 years.
Syed’s films have been shown at numerous institutions around the world. Most recently she was Artist in Focus at Courtisane Festival Gent in Belgium (2019). Other exhibitions of note include, Delirium Equilibrium at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi (2018), Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2012-13, 5th Moscow Biennale (2013); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010); Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2009); XV Sydney Biennale (2006); Hayward Gallery, London (2005); Tate Britain, London (2003); Glasgow Museum of Modern Art, Scotland (2002); Iniva, London (2002); The New Art Gallery in Walsall (2002); and Tate Modern, London (2000).
“Alia Syed's practice as a filmmaker tests the conventions of writing. Even though her films deploy a narrative structure they do so to unravel the very idea of beginnings and endings that is necessary to the act of making sense. Instead she uses repetition, circularity and the layering of word and image to explore the conditions under which the subject of language and desire is made present but also eludes our grasp." Alia Syed by Amna Malik.