"Grounds" Exhibit At The Boston Center For The Arts

Boston MA

01 January, 2022

6:23 PM

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By Shira Laucharoen, DigBoston January 1, 2022 Raafat Majzoub's project will open at the Mills Gallery Artist Raafat Majzoub's exhibition, "Grounds," will hold its opening reception and curatorial walkthrough at Boston Center for the Arts on Jan. 19, from 6-9 p.m. According to a press release, Grounds "brings together a variety of Majzoub's excerpts to weave a conversation about intimacy and collaboration, and inspire a meditation on collective futures with exhibition visitors. It presents grounds for the validity of the artist's fiction, and creates new grounds for shared realities to come." It will be on display at the Mills Gallery from Jan. 15 through Feb. 20. Beginning in 2012, Majzoub has been developing "an autobiography of another Arab world" called "The Perfumed Garden." Excerpts from it have been published through film, audio, visual, text, and as public installations. The work is "an act of claiming power," for Majzoub. Grounds will be drawing from The Perfurmed Garden and serves as "an invitation to reconsider truth as multiple. To change. To engage. And to share. It presents grounds for the validity of our collective fictions and creates new grounds for shared realities to come." In a statement, Majzoub commented on her process as an artist: "I'm critical of how we use the terms reality and fiction. I do not see them as opposites. Reality is a form of fiction that has been activated by power structures that benefit from it. Power structures decide what you think is real. My work in fiction is positioned in this reality–making process. I am not only interested in the imagination, but also in the reification of alternate possibilities. Writing becomes a form of architecture. And fiction can be seen as a tool for collective worldmaking that is intimate, speculative and political." DigBoston is an independent metropolitan newspaper serving Boston, MA and environs. Founded in 1999, we cover regional news, arts, music, food, movies, and shopping in a lively, funny, insightful way—with honesty and integrity. Check us out at digboston.com!