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Amal Laala (born, Melbourne, 1979) lives and works between the countries of her ancestry and birth: Australia, Finland and Morocco. Amal is a socially engaged artist interacting with public space and communities to creatively activate dialogues around current social and political issues. Her aim is to empower people in their current context, creating platforms where diverse publics can participate and learn together by artistically expressing their stories. Socio-political issues are explored through a range of mediums, from performance to installations, producing artist publications to interventions, videos to photographs. She holds a Masters of Art in Environmental Art from Aalto School of Art, Design and Architecture, Helsinki and has received a Bachelor of Art in Photography and a diploma in International Public Art. She has produced work with Helsinki Art Museum, Design Museum Helsinki, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Tate Britain, South London Gallery, and Victoria & Albert Museum. Over the past fifteen years she has created work in Australia, Finland, Jordan, Macedonia, Morocco, the UK and the U.S. |
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