CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #23: Gil Mualem-Doron

Gil Mualem-Doron is a transdisciplinary artist working across photography, film, large-scale installation, and textile art. His work focuses on decolonial practices, intersectional identities, everyday urbanism, and social and climate justice. While his practice is research-based and socially engaged, it is deeply influenced by his lived experiences as a neurodiverse, queer, Jewish migrant, and is firmly rooted in activism.

Gil Mualem-Doron received the CuratorSpace Artist Bursary for his talk and workshop at the International Conference 'Culture & Mental Health: Refugees' at the Dr Guislain Museum in Ghent, Belgium. At the conference, he presented socially engaged art projects involving Palestinians who are internal refugees in Israel, as well as refugee groups in the UK.

Gil's work has been widely exhibited across the UK, including at the Tate Modern, Turner Contemporary, the Southbank Centre, the Pump House Gallery, and the LGBTQ+ Ledward Centre in Brighton. He has held solo exhibitions at the People’s History Museum (Manchester), Arts Depot, Rich Mix, P21 Gallery (London), Worthing Museum, and in museums and galleries in Brazil, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway, and South Africa. He has also been commissioned to work for the Mayor of London, Brighton Council, Counterpoints Arts, Art Reach, B-Side Festival, and Ben & Jerry's, and has received several grants from Arts Council England.

As part of his practice, he founded the Socially Engaged Art Salon (SEAS CIC) in Brighton in 2016—a queer, BPOC artist-led organisation that promotes socially engaged practices and champions equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in the visual arts.

Gil’s upcoming exhibition, 'Villa in the Jungle', is a film installation exploring the ideological and economic motivations behind Israel’s settlement project in the Occupied West Bank, as well as preparations for new settlements in Gaza and their devastating impact on the Palestinian population. The film montage draws on online and archival materials, as well as his doctoral research, 'The Dead Zone & the Architecture of Transgression'. The exhibition, produced by Art Support for Activists (ASFA), will be held at the Collective Action space in Hove from 11 January to 6 February.

More information about the exhibition and Gil’s work can be found here: https://www.instagram.com/gil_mualem_doron

Find out more about the CuratorSpace Artist Bursary and how to apply at https://www.bursary.curatorspace.com.

 

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