Join us on Friday, February 7 at 7pm to celebrate the release of Simone Fattal's first comprehensive monograph (Portikus / Hatje Cantz, 2024). The artist will be joined in conversation by writer, editor, and curator Negar Azimi to discuss her wide-ranging practice, spanning ceramics, sculpture, painting, collage, and publishing. 

Influenced by her first-hand experiences of migration, displacement, and war, Simone Fattal (b. 1942) transcends the bounds of both media and geography like few artists of her generation. Her abstract bronze and ceramic sculptures reference ancient myths and archaeological finds, and her collages combine snippets from her private archive with historical events from the Arab world, reassembling scattered parts to suggest the fragility of an identity shaped by migration. 

In 1982, Fattal founded the Post-Apollo Press, issuing Etel Adnan’s chapbook From A to Z as its first title. The Press would go on to publish experimental works of poetry, prose, and translation for over thirty years, amplifying the voices of avant-garde writers from the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.