The Third World Ecology Trilogy traces beauty, violence and erasure across the plant and animal, mineral and human lives for which they are reserved. Comprised of three works Palestinian Wildlife Series; The Pan African Asian Women’s Organization Cairo to Conakry, 1960-1965 and Sinai, the trilogy employs footage from a nature documentary in Palestine, photo archives from the artist’s feminist grandmother in Egypt, and original underwater video from the Egyptian Sinai to reflect on postcoloniality, ecology and third world feminism. This performance and artistic research was made possible with generous support from the Kone Foundation.

You are welcome to join on Friday 7th of May at 6–9pm in Publics. The event will be followed by a short talk with the artist and a reception.

Rania Lee Khalil’s original works have been seen in such places as The Judson Church, La Mama Galleria, Martin Segal Theater, Utopia Station and The Ontological-Hysteric Theater in New York; Aomori Art Museum Japan, Al Ma’mal Contemporary Art Foundation Palestine, Zawya Cinema Egypt, Kiasma Museum for Contemporary Art Finland and the artistic research pavilion of the 56th Venice Biennale. She is the recipient of awards including New York Foundation for the Arts (US), Kone Foundation (Finland), and Zebra Poetry Film Festival (Germany). The daughter of Egyptian immigrants to the U.S., Khalil recently returned to Brooklyn, New York where she lives and works and is the mother of one daughter.