Simone Fattal: Works and Days, on view at MoMA PS1 through September 2, 2019. Artwork courtesy the artist and Balice Hertling, Paris; Karma International, Zurich / Los Angeles; kaufmann repetto, Milan / New York; and Galerie Tanit, Munich / Beirut. Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Matthew Septimus.
Simone Fattal: Works and Days, on view at MoMA PS1 through September 2, 2019. Artwork courtesy the artist and Balice Hertling, Paris; Karma International, Zurich / Los Angeles; kaufmann repetto, Milan / New York; and Galerie Tanit, Munich / Beirut. Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Matthew Septimus.
Simone Fattal: Works and Days, on view at MoMA PS1 through September 2, 2019. Artwork courtesy the artist and Balice Hertling, Paris; Karma International, Zurich / Los Angeles; kaufmann repetto, Milan / New York; and Galerie Tanit, Munich / Beirut. Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Matthew Septimus.
Simone Fattal: Works and Days, on view at MoMA PS1 through September 2, 2019. Artwork courtesy the artist and Balice Hertling, Paris; Karma International, Zurich / Los Angeles; kaufmann repetto, Milan / New York; and Galerie Tanit, Munich / Beirut. Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Matthew Septimus.
Simone Fattal: Works and Days, on view at MoMA PS1 through September 2, 2019. Artwork courtesy the artist and Balice Hertling, Paris; Karma International, Zurich / Los Angeles; kaufmann repetto, Milan / New York; and Galerie Tanit, Munich / Beirut. Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Matthew Septimus.
Simone Fattal: Works and Days, on view at MoMA PS1 through September 2, 2019. Artwork courtesy the artist and Balice Hertling, Paris; Karma International, Zurich / Los Angeles; kaufmann repetto, Milan / New York; and Galerie Tanit, Munich / Beirut. Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Matthew Septimus.
Simone Fattal: Works and Days, on view at MoMA PS1 through September 2, 2019. Artwork courtesy the artist and Balice Hertling, Paris; Karma International, Zurich / Los Angeles; kaufmann repetto, Milan / New York; and Galerie Tanit, Munich / Beirut. Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Matthew Septimus.
Simone Fattal: Works and Days, on view at MoMA PS1 through September 2, 2019. Artwork courtesy the artist and Balice Hertling, Paris; Karma International, Zurich / Los Angeles; kaufmann repetto, Milan / New York; and Galerie Tanit, Munich / Beirut. Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Matthew Septimus.
Simone Fattal: Works and Days, on view at MoMA PS1 through September 2, 2019. Artwork courtesy the artist and Balice Hertling, Paris; Karma International, Zurich / Los Angeles; kaufmann repetto, Milan / New York; and Galerie Tanit, Munich / Beirut. Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Matthew Septimus.
Simone Fattal: Works and Days, on view at MoMA PS1 through September 2, 2019. Artwork courtesy the artist and Balice Hertling, Paris; Karma International, Zurich / Los Angeles; kaufmann repetto, Milan / New York; and Galerie Tanit, Munich / Beirut. Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Matthew Septimus.

Simone Fattal: Works and Days

Simone Fattal: Works and Days explores the impact of displacement, as well as the politics of archeology and excavation, as these themes resonate across the artist’s multifaceted practice.
MoMA PS1
Mar 31st – Sep 2nd
Long Island City, 22 - 25 Jackson AvenueMap
, 'Horse,' 2009, MoMA PS1

Simone Fattal

Horse, 2009

MoMA PS1

On loan

, 'The Wounded Warrier,' 1999, MoMA PS1

Simone Fattal

The Wounded Warrier, 1999

MoMA PS1

On loan

, 'Man and his shadow,' 2009, MoMA PS1

Simone Fattal

Man and his shadow, 2009

MoMA PS1

On loan

, 'Man in the Desert,' 2000, MoMA PS1

Simone Fattal

Man in the Desert, 2000

MoMA PS1

On loan

Press Release

MoMA PS1 presents the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of the work of Simone Fattal (Lebanese and American, b.1942). On view from March 31 through September 2, 2019, the retrospective brings together over 200 works created over the last 50 years, featuring abstract and figurative ceramic sculptures, paintings, watercolors, and collages that draw from a range of sources including ancient history, mythology, Sufi poetry, geopolitical conflicts, and landscape painting.

Simone Fattal: Works and Days explores the impact of displacement, as well as the politics of archeology and excavation, as these themes resonate across the artist’s multifaceted practice. Fattal’s work constructs a world that has emerged from history and memory, and its replications and repetitions grapple with the losses of time while revealing its reoccurrences. Never far from the earth, her works emerge as an unfinished project of telling the stories of ancient history with figures taken from central references such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Odyssey, Dhat al-Himma, and others. Both timeless and specific, her work straddles the contemporary, the archaic, and the mythic.

Simone Fattal: Works and Days is organized by Ruba Katrib, Curator, with Josephine Graf, Curatorial Assistant, MoMA PS1.

Major support for the exhibition is provided by The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art. Additional funding is provided by the MoMA PS1 Annual Exhibition Fund and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

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