Nour Mobarak (b. 1985, Egypt) excavates violence and desire – the compulsions, and glitches in both a person or nation state. Her body acts, in voice, sculpture, sound, performance, writing and video, as one hybrid part under current geopolitical conditions.
SmartSpaces presented Ibi in Raumam (Reine Ibi) (2010) by Benjamin Crotty and Nour Mobarak in the Borderland exhibition in the windows of 420 Broome Street in New York City.
Mobarak has performed at such locations as the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; LAXArt, Los Angeles; Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York; Stadslimeit, Antwerp; Cambridge University, Cambridge; and the Getty Museum, Los Angeles among others. Mobarak has published poems in journals such as F.R. David, The Claudius App, and The Salzburg Review among others. Mobarak has participated in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York; LAXart, Los Angeles; Cubitt Gallery, and Rodeo Gallery, London.
- Project: Borderland
- Artist Website: https://www.nour.computer/