Chantal Zakari

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Chantal Zakari is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and art educator; a Turkish Levantine [1] (and U.S. citizen) now residing in the Boston area. [2]

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She is a full-time faculty member at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, [3] where she chaired the Graphic Arts area from 1998 until 2015, and was an active faculty voice while the SMFA was undergoing the transition in its long-standing affiliation with Tufts University. [4] She was an associate member of the Goat Island performance group from 1995 to 2009 and has served on the board of Belmont World Film. [5]

Career

Zakari's studio practice freely combines research methodologies and artistic strategies borrowed from various disciplines such as photography, documentary, performance, storytelling, installation, graphic design and social interventions. According to her web site, [2] Zakari draws upon contemporary social issues by making connections through personal narratives, history and popular culture.

Combining her skills as a graphic designer and an artist, Zakari's work often culminates in the form of an artist's book. One of her early projects was a diary The Turk and the Jew on which she collaborated with her husband Mike Mandel while he lived in Pullman, Washington and she in Chicago, Illinois. They used the web as a means to communicate daily and further explore their cultural differences, then published the diary as an artists' book in 1998. [6]

The book webAffairs (2005) [7] is a narrative, told in photographs and text, of Zakari's experience in virtual space. Using a pseudonym, she began a four-year-long performance and documentation of a webcam community where people meet to have virtual sex. The book comments on viewer's relationship to technology, the objectification of the body, personal surveillance tools and gender performativity.

For fifteen years, Zakari and Mandel collaborated on a body of work about the conflict between secularist culture and the Islamist movement in Turkey. Their journey, which began in 1997, resulted in photographic images, video interviews and public performances. In 2010 they published an encyclopedic artists' book, The State of Ata (2010) [8] followed later by a conceptual exhibition 7 Turkish Artists. [9]

Zakari and Mandel produced the book Lockdown Archive (2015) in response to the manhunt and lockdown of April 19, 2013, [10] in their hometown of Watertown, Massachusetts. The couple designed and produced a series of commemorative porcelain plates "Shelter in Plates" [11] depicting SWAT teams and heavy artillery near their home during the lockdown.

Collections

Zakari's work is in the permanent collections at Yale University Library, [12] Brooklyn Museum of Art, [13] [14] the Getty Research Institute library, [15] The Kinsey Institute Library,[ citation needed ] Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam [16] and the Addison Gallery of American Art.[ citation needed ]

Exhibitions

She has had solo exhibitions in Boston, Baltimore, Atlanta, Los Angeles and also in Izmir and Ankara, Turkey.[ citation needed ]

Recent exhibitions include Relay, [17] January 2017 and Strategic Planning, [18] January 2018 at Kingston Gallery, [19] Boston and Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, [20] and Shelter in Plates at the Fitchburg Art Museum [21] and at the Addison Gallery of American Art. [22]

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  2. 1 2 "Mike Mandel, Chantal Zakari, public art, artist's publications". Mike Mandel, Chantal Zakari, public art, artist's publications. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  3. ↑ McNeil, Taylor (August 12, 2020). "How Does Art Change Our Perceptions of COVID-19?".
  4. ↑ "School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to Become Part of Tufts University in 2016". Tufts Now. 2015-12-21. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
  5. ↑ "[Belmont World Film]". www.belmontworldfilm.org. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  6. ↑ "Mike Mandel and Chantal Zakari - The Turk and the Jew". Printed Matter. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
  7. ↑ "webAffairs Press Release". webaffairsbook.info. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
  8. ↑ "The State of Ata".
  9. ↑ "7 Turkish Artists" (PDF).
  10. ↑ "Lockdown in greater Boston". 19 April 2013.
  11. ↑ "WGBH interview". 17 April 2014.
  12. ↑ Lockdown Archive, Mike Mandel & Chantal Zakari. Eighteen Publications. 2015. ISBN   9780918290120. OCLC   945633321.
  13. ↑ Mandel, Mike; Zakari, Chantal (2010). The State of Ata: the contested imagery of power in Turkey. Boston, MA: Eighteen Publications. ISBN   978-0-918290-10-6.
  14. ↑ Mandel, Mike; Zakari, Chantal (2012). They came to Baghdad. Watertown, MA: Eighteen Publications. ISBN   978-0-918290-11-3.
  15. ↑ "The Midwest: Illinois". primo.getty.edu. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
  16. ↑ "Network Cultures home page".
  17. ↑ "Relay, January 2017 at Kingston Gallery". www.kingstongallery.com. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  18. ↑ "Strategic Planning: Chantal Zakari, January 2018 at Kingston Gallery". www.kingstongallery.com. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  19. ↑ "Kingston Gallery-"Strategic Planning"".
  20. ↑ "Boston and Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today".
  21. ↑ ""Shelter in Plates" at the Fitchburg Art Museum". 5 March 2018.
  22. ↑ "GunCountry at the Addison Gallery of American Art" (PDF).
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