The Amplification Project:
Women Artists of the Arab Diaspora (Detroit)
Women Artists of the Arab Diaspora (Detroit)
Venue
Detroit Historical Museum
Dates
June 13 - September 13, 2026
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Curatorial Statement
This exhibition emerges from The Amplification Project, a living, crowd-sourced digital archive documenting art shaped by forced migration, displacement, and cultural survival. Focusing on contemporary Arab women artists connected to Detroit, it explores migration, inheritance, and life between cultural geographies. Unfolding as a visual and auditory environment, the exhibition features artworks, installations, film, poetry, and recorded narration inspired by hakawati (a centuries-old tradition of Arabic oral storytelling) accompanied by ambient soundscapes. Together, image, voice, and sound trace arcs of rupture, resilience, and rebirth, revealing how artists shaped by diaspora and displacement find re-emergence and contribute new artistic languages rooted in Detroit’s Arab American community.
Soundscapes
Listen to ambient soundscapes featuring the narrations of the exhibition's artists, composed by Didier Nietsche and Christophe Bailleau O’Farrell. To view all the soundscapes, press 'Tracklist'.
The Art & Artists in the Show
Ilham Badderdine Mahfouz
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Malak Cherri
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Chloé Hajjar
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Andrea Shaker
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Therese Basha Jarjoura
Razaan Killawi
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Sama Chahine
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Leila Abdelrazaq
Marguerite Dabaie
Cyrah Dardas
Hannah Fahoome
Zina Hakeem
Ibaa Ismail
Aya Krisht
Maamoul Press
Biba Sheikh
Sr7aneh (Jenin Yaseen)
Kamelya Omayma Youssef
Zeinab Saab
Guest Artists
Nabil Abughanima, Marcel Ghosn, Mohamad Harb, Khalil Khaled, Suhail Salem
