Regina Mamou is part of Exposed 2011. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.
Regina Mamou’s work explores the physical awareness of space through issues of geography and psychology, public and private, and the way that these markers affect the body. Her recent project, “Mapping Collected Memory”, explores navigational methods in Amman, Jordan through lens-based media. The project began as an investigation of markers and landmarks in a city which recently implemented street numbers and names. Though the city’s new system moves toward formal addresses, the main form of navigation in Amman is a memory-based system. Through informal guided city tours, hand drawn maps, and getting lost, Mamou encountered the city through the memorization of its districts, streets, and shortcuts. Document #1 is a record of the memory device she used to navigate a well-known neighborhood in Amman.
Regina Mamou is a Chicago-based visual artist working in photography and video. In 2009 she received a 15-month Fulbright Fellowship to Jordan to explore navigational methods and memory in Amman. She holds a Master of Fine Arts (2007) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (2005) from Rhode Island School of Design. Recent projects include an exhibition that Mamou co-curated with Scott Patrick Wiener at Harvard’s Center for Government and International Studies. She has exhibited in the Middle East and the United States and will be featured in a 3-person video exhibition in the Fall 2011.
ABOUT EXPOSED
For the past twenty years, the Helen Day Art Center has hosted an outdoor public art and sculpture exhibition called Exposed in Stowe, Vermont. Exposed hosts sculptures, site-specific installations, and participatory work from twenty-three national and international artists. the 2011 edition offers a series of Thursday night events by 12 video artists, writers, performers, and musicians accompany the exhibit. This exhibition and series of events is accompanied by cell phone audio tours, QR codes, walking tour maps, walkabouts, and a catalogue of the exhibit published by Kasini House Books. The exhibition will take place July 8th to October 8th, 2011.