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Season Finale / Omar Kholeif - Studio Visit

Season Finale / Omar Kholeif - Studio Visit

In this explosive Season 1 finale of Studio Visit, the tables turn as cohost Dr. Omar Kholeif steps into the hot seat, 
becoming the ultimate subject of enquiry. Moving through spaces of intense vulnerability, displacement, and 
institutional critique, Kholeif lays bare the raw mechanics 
of an  artistic life from the painful labor of world-making and the constant shift and drift of identity contortion. 

The haunting nostalgia of Mariah Carey ballads and the artist’s unbridled voice grip us with their candor. Listen here.

PODCAST Specials
Studio Visit: Sunil Gupta
Studio Visit: Charan Singh
Studio Visit: Chris Hugh Mackenzie

OUT NOW: Huguette Caland / imagine otherwise by Omar Kholeif
with an afterword by Dr. Brigitte Caland.
Place your order at Sternberg Press

Book cover featuring a stylized illustration of a woman lying on her back with her legs raised, in shades of blue, yellow, and orange. The title is 'Huguette Caland' by Omar Khleif, with an afterword by Dr. Brigitte Caland.
Book cover for "Lalitha Lajmi" by Skye Arundhati-Thomas, with additional words by Dr. Omar Kholeif. The cover illustration features a stylized portrait of a woman with blue hair in a braid, wearing a striped top and a dark patterned jacket, set against a white background.

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Lalitha Lajmi by Skye Arundhati-Thomas (imagine/otherwise 3).
Order from Sternberg Press.

Book cover titled 'Melt' by Yalter, featuring duplicated images of hands and eyes in sepia tone with bold, blocky text.

Nil Yalter: Circular Tension by Omar Kholeif published by Mousse. Available here.

Revisit archival photos of Beirut and its ‘Golden 60s’. Dive into a treasure trove of materials surrounding the first contemporary art gallery in Lebanon, Gallery One. Helen Khal: Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s is co-edited and authored by Omar Kholeif with Carla Chammas and Rachel Dedman, following on from an exhibition curated by Dedman and Chammas at the Sursock Museum in 2019. You can preview or order your copy here.

Black and white photo of Helen Khal holding a paintbrush and palette. Text on the image reads, 'Helen Khal, Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s'.
Cover of a book titled 'Magda Stawarska' by Omar Kholeif with an afterword by Lubaina Himid, featuring three red water valves on a textured wall, and the Sternberg Press logo at the bottom.

Magda Stawarska by Omar Kholeif with an afterword by Lubaina Himid (imagine/otherwise 2). Available here.

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