The works at the exhibition-design for design exhibition, BRANDING CONFLICT, take sides to refute imposed roles of oppression and victimhood for a un/brandable identity. This disjointed brand exhibition is armed with graffiti, posters, inflight magazines, lookbooks, wayfinding signage, and tattoos. The exhibition-design for design exhibition functions, in poetic or interpretive terms, as a fragmented brand guideline, a failed group identity for a region, “The Middle East.”
11/10 - 12/8, 2022
Vanderbilt University, Space 204
Artworks, products, and library by the following artists, designers, and collectives:
Wael Abu Yabes, Lama Al Takruri, Amanda Assaley, Qais Assali, Layan Attari, Dana Awartani, Tracy Chahwan, Broomberg & Chanarin, Trashy Clothing, Milan Davis, Disarming Design, Subjective Editions, Shaima Hamad, Aisha Mershani, Rabih Mroué, Saher Nassar, HEY PORTER, Fehras Publishing Practices, Michael Rakowitz, Larissa Sansour, Amer Shomali, Or Zubalsky.
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