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Lina Dib, North to South and Back: flights, flood fills and sticks (installation drawing), 2023, ink on paper. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Lynn Lane.
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Artist Statement by Lina Dib
North to South and Back: flights, flood fills and sticks by Lina Dib
Lina Dib was born in Montreal and currently lives and works in Houston, TX. She is a multidisciplinary artist and anthropologist. Her installations and compositions range from the experimental to the ethnographic. Using sculptural elements as well as sound, video and paper, she creates fluid architectures that highlight socio-technical and ecological change.
Dib teaches at Rice University where she is a fellow and lecturer at the Center for Environmental Studies and the Program in Writing and Communication. Her work has been supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Canada’s Social Science and Humanities Research Council, the Union of Concerned Scientists, AMIDA’s European training program, and the City of Houston among others. Recent exhibitions include the Ion Innovation Hub, the Houston Botanic Garden, Yerba Buena Gardens, Day for Night, Galveston Arts Center, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Discovery Green, Governor’s Island NY, the Whitney Biennial 2017, and Johnson Space Center NASA.
Presente by Elizabeth Cummins Munoz (text)
Elizabeth Cummins Muñoz is a writer, researcher, and university lecturer living in Houston, Texas. Her fiction and essays explore the moral borderlands of immigration, domesticity, and the historical imagination. Her work has appeared in Gray Sparrow Journal, Salon, Concho River Review, Literal-Latin American Voices, and other journals and anthologies. Her book, Mothercoin: The Stories of Immigrant Nannies (Beacon Press 2022), recounts the experiences of several Central American and Mexican women working as cleaners and caregivers in the private homes of Houston, while telling a larger story about global immigration, working motherhood, and the private experience of our public world. Mothercoin has been featured in NPR, Commonweal, Viewpoints Radio, and at the Texas Book Festival. Elizabeth holds a doctorate in Latin American literature with a focus on US Hispanic and women’s studies. She teaches courses on writing, literature, and culture at Rice University, where she is senior lecturer in the Program in Writing and Communication.
The barn
Lina Dib
A Gift From The Bower is presented by DiverseWorks and the Locke Surls Center for Art and Nature @ Splendora Gardens (LSCAN).
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Lina Dib, North to South and Back: flights, flood fills and sticks (installation drawing), 2023, ink on paper. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Lynn Lane.
Artist Statement by Lina Dib
North to South and Back: flights, flood fills and sticks by Lina Dib
Lina Dib was born in Montreal and currently lives and works in Houston, TX. She is a multidisciplinary artist and anthropologist. Her installations and compositions range from the experimental to the ethnographic. Using sculptural elements as well as sound, video and paper, she creates fluid architectures that highlight socio-technical and ecological change.
Dib teaches at Rice University where she is a fellow and lecturer at the Center for Environmental Studies and the Program in Writing and Communication. Her work has been supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Canada’s Social Science and Humanities Research Council, the Union of Concerned Scientists, AMIDA’s European training program, and the City of Houston among others. Recent exhibitions include the Ion Innovation Hub, the Houston Botanic Garden, Yerba Buena Gardens, Day for Night, Galveston Arts Center, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Discovery Green, Governor’s Island NY, the Whitney Biennial 2017, and Johnson Space Center NASA.
Presente by Elizabeth Cummins Munoz (text)
Elizabeth Cummins Muñoz is a writer, researcher, and university lecturer living in Houston, Texas. Her fiction and essays explore the moral borderlands of immigration, domesticity, and the historical imagination. Her work has appeared in Gray Sparrow Journal, Salon, Concho River Review, Literal-Latin American Voices, and other journals and anthologies. Her book, Mothercoin: The Stories of Immigrant Nannies (Beacon Press 2022), recounts the experiences of several Central American and Mexican women working as cleaners and caregivers in the private homes of Houston, while telling a larger story about global immigration, working motherhood, and the private experience of our public world. Mothercoin has been featured in NPR, Commonweal, Viewpoints Radio, and at the Texas Book Festival. Elizabeth holds a doctorate in Latin American literature with a focus on US Hispanic and women’s studies. She teaches courses on writing, literature, and culture at Rice University, where she is senior lecturer in the Program in Writing and Communication.
The barn
Lina Dib
A Gift From The Bower is presented by DiverseWorks and the Locke Surls Center for Art and Nature @ Splendora Gardens (LSCAN).
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