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Born in Geneva in 1983.
Production and distribution circuits traditionally tend to separate visual art spaces from those linked to music. On the contrary, Zahra Poonawala tries to marry the sensations and find a means of expression connected to her dual background as artist and musician. She questions the birth of harmony, this spark that turns a sound into an object of spatial experience, with its density, its presence, or its absence.
Her art work has been recognized through grants from the Alsace Region (Drac, AIC and AAA), Pro Helvetia Foundation, Swiss Cultural Fund and from several international residencies. Distinguished at the Contemporary Art Biennale in Mulhouse, she was awarded a prize by the Fracs of the \u00abGrand Est Regions\u00bb by way of an artist residency at the Center for Contemporary Art Parc-Saint-L\u00e9ger in Burgundy in 2009.
The same year she obtained a creative residency in Montreal at the Agence Topo with \u00abVariable Geographies\u00bb, a cultural exchange program set up by the Chambre Blanche (Qu\u00e9bec) and Incident.net (France). The following year she was awarded a research stay in Latvia as part of an exchange program between the cities of Strasbourg and Riga.
She was invited as artist-in-residence at the opening of the Frac Franche-Comt\u00e9 in 2013 for a project with the Regional Conservatory of Besan\u00e7on. End 2015, she was granted a residency by the Bade-W\u00fcrtemberg region in Germany, in collaboration with the Kunststiftung, the French Institute in Stuttgart and the European Center for Contemporary Artistic Actions in Strasbourg. A partnership with the Conservatory and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra (SKO) was born during this residency to complete the \u00abConstellations\u00bb project led by the artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is in Basel that she participated for the first time in a collective exhibition: at Plug-In in 2008 (curators Irene Grillo and Raffael Dorig) during the Regionale 9. Participations in the following collective exhibitions followed with her interactive sound installation TUTTI: \u00abPanorama 14\u00bb in 2012 (at the Fresnoy National Contemporary Art Studio); \u00abNuit Blanche\u00bb in Brussels; \u00abPanorama\u00bb in 2013 (Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius, Lithuania, curator Kestutis Kuizinas); \u00abElastic Reality\u00bb (LABoral, Spain, curator Benjamin Weil); \u00abNuit du Son\u00bb (Kunsthalle of Mulhouse, curator Sandrine Wymann); \u00abDigital Life\u00bb in 2014 (MACRO Testaccio, Rome, exhibition directed by Alain Fleischer) and in 2016 at the exhibition \u00abNow I feel Concerned, Regionale 16\u00bb at L\u2019Aubette 1928 with the Museums of the City of Strasbourg and Acc\u00e9l\u00e9rateurs de Particules (curators Camille Giertler and Sophie Kauffenstein). She participated in other collective exhibitions with other installations and performances, notably at FEW in Wattwiller in 2014, CEAAC in Strasbourg, Freiburg-im-Brisgau in Germany during \u00abSound Surrounds\u00bb (curator Nicoletta Torcelli), \u00abCity Sonic\u00bb in Mons in Belgium, Cesis international art festival in Latvia and Frac Franche-Comt\u00e9 in 2014. Her interactive sound installation, The Fool\u2019s Ballad, was presented in Shanghai (Chronus Art Center, curator Zhang Ga) and Basel (HEK, curator Sabine Himmelsbach) in 2017 and in Frac Alsace (curators Dr. Heike Piehler and Felizitas Diering) in 2018.
Last summer 2019, her newest sound Sculpture Manifesto From Lorraine was presented at New York Electronic Art Festival (curator Carol Parkison) on Governor's Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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