Rasha Salti is a researcher, writer, and curator of art and film, living
in Marseille. She co-curated several film programmes including Saving
Bruce Lee: African and Arab Cinema in the Era of Soviet Cultural Diplomacy
(2018) with Koyo Kouoh at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. Salti
has also co-curated with Kristine Khouri the documentary and archival
exhibition Past Disquiet at the MACBA in Barcelona (2015), at the HKW
in Berlin (2016), the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende in Santiago de
Chile (2018), the Sursock Museum in Beirut (2018), the Zeitz MoCAA in Cape Town
(2023), and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2024). In 2022, Salti was one of the
co-curators of the 8th Triennial of Photography in Hamburg, and part of
the curatorial team of the12th Berlin Biennial.
Past Disquiet is
an archival and documentary exhibition that revisits the intersecting histories
and universes of militant, artistic, and museological practices that were
connected to international anti-imperialist solidarity movements from the 1960s
to 1980s. It tracks one-thousand and one stories of artists and militants,
visionaries, and dreamers who organised exhibitions, intervened in public
spaces, and created a very particular form of museum to incarnate the causes
they were fighting for: museums of solidarity, without walls, and
more often than not, museums that were in exile. It stitches together
transnational histories bound by solidarity, whose connections had been lost.
Beginning from research into and around the story of the International
Art Exhibition for Palestine, which was on view in Beirut in the spring of
1978, Past Disquiet travels the world, to Paris, Rome, Rabat,
Baghdad, Tokyo, Venice, Santiago, Managua, and Cape Town, back and forth.
