The Delfina Foundation provides opportunities for artists to explore new connections and collaborations with colleagues, communities and institutions based across a network of cultural and urban centres in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
From the 'Village Girl's Day' series, Waheeda Malullah, 2008
Waheeda Malullah
Waheeda Malullah’s photography, installation and video-based work explores childhood playfulness, cultural rules, and religion.
In her recent work, Waheeda uses sports and competition to identify the rules of the social game, and expose the situations in which grown-ups are all losers. In Play (2006, video), Football, Bahrain's national sport, is used as a model and a structure for the staging of Waheeda’s feelings and the projection of her desires.
Waheeda Malullah graduated from RIAM, Bahrain, in 2002. In 2005 she was international resident at the Towhouse Gallery (Cairo, Egypt). In 2007, she participated in numerous exhibitions, in Spain, Athens, Berlin, Copenhagen, Stuttgart and Paris. Waheeda currently lives and works in Barhain.
from the series The Expulsion from Paradise, 2006
Ixone Sádaba
Ixone Sadaba's carefully composed photographs explore the body as a location of inner and outer conflict. Her earlier performance-based work was strongly influenced by 1970s body-art and feminist practices, including the work of Marina Abramovic, Gina Pane and Laurie Anderson.
Ixone studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Basque Country University, Bilbao, and Antonio de Nebrija University, Spain, before graduating from ICP New-York in 2006. She has shown her work internationally, in venues such as the National Museum Reina Sofia (Spain), Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain) and Witzenhausen Gallery (New-York and Amsterdam). She currently lives and works in Bilbao, Spain.
