Field Trip: Private Exhibition Visit with Rania Matar

Join the CoDeCo community for a behind-the-scenes visit to Rania Matar's exhibition "Where Do I Go?" Curated by Misstropolis. Join the CoDesign Collaborative community for a studio visit with the renowned photographer Rania Matar on Tuesday, September 22, from 12 – 1 pm ET. Organized in partnership with Misstropolis and hosted at The Project Space, a new collaborative venue between Robert Klein Gallery and SEA-DAR, the Field Trip will center on Matar’s photographic exploration of place, identity, and the built environment in her exhibition, Where Do I Go? Trained originally as an architect, Matar pays close attention to the emotional resonance of built environments. The exhibition’s title derives from graffiti discovered by the artist on a damaged wall in Beirut, a question that echoes throughout the series both literally and emotionally. Working collaboratively with women of different generations and backgrounds, Matar constructs portraits that blur the line between documentation and shared testimony. Many of the photographs unfold within abandoned hotels, aging theaters, fractured apartments, and religious spaces scarred by decades of conflict and political uncertainty. While her photographs may not provide solutions or closure, they nevertheless invite the viewer to pause and find the beauty, the hope, the shared humanity, and the grace that still exist despite everything. They are her love letters to the women of Lebanon. Field Trips are a benefit of membership in the Design Impact Society and Corporate Membership. General Members (Individual+) register at a discounted rate. Not-yet-Members can reserve tickets for $25/person. Please email [email protected] for help with registration. About Rania Matar Rania Matar is a Guggenheim 2018 Fellow. She was born and raised in Lebanon and moved to the U.S. in 1984. Rania Matar’s work has been widely published and exhibited in museums worldwide, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Carnegie Museum of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, and more. A mid-career retrospective of her work was recently on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, in a solo exhibition: In Her Image: Photographs by Rania Matar. She has received several grants and awards including a 2022 Leica Women Foto Project Award, 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2017 Mellon Foundation artist-in-residency grant at the Gund Gallery at Kenyon College, 2011 Legacy Award at the Griffin Museum of Photography, 2021, 2011 and 2007 Massachusetts Cultural Council artist fellowships. In 2008 she was a finalist for the Foster Award at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, with an accompanying solo exhibition. Her work is in the permanent collections of several museums, institutions and private collections worldwide. About Misstropolis & Robin Hauck Misstropolis is an online contemporary arts platform covering arts, culture, and ideas. Robin Hauck is a writer, curator, and advocate for the arts, especially in her home city of Boston. Robin founded Misstropolis to bring people together around contemporary art, and to champion work by pioneering female artists. She received her Master’s in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and her Bachelor’s in English and Creative Writing from Denison University. She sits on the Advisory Board of the ICA/Boston and VIA Art Fund, and travels extensively to learn about art in diverse contexts. She is Secretary of the Board of Directors of Boston Art Review and participates in local advocacy around family homelessness as a member of the Advisory Council of Horizons for Homeless Children. Misstropolis has been featured in WBUR, The Arts Fuse, the Boston Globe, and by the Massachusetts chapter of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.