Watch Now: Huguette Caland – A Self Portrait with Brigitte Caland, Simone Fattal and Dr. Omar Kholeif

25 July 2025

On 30 May, Brigitte Caland and Simone Fattal joined Dr. Omar Kholeif for an intimate conversation on the life and legacy of artist Huguette Caland, featuring a short documentary screening and the global preview of her first critical biography. The event was followed by an intimate book signing launching 'imagine/otherwise: Huguette Caland' as well as preview copies of 'imagine/otherwise: Simone Fattal' by Hans Ulrich Obrist, in collaboration with Sternberg Press, London.

Finding My Blue Sky is an exhibition conceived as a constellation, at once epic and polyglot, personal and searchingly political. Curated by Dr. Omar Kholeif, this ambitious group show at Lisson Gallery features over twenty artists from diverse nationalities and eras, including several making their London debut, alongside twelve new commissions. The show elides biographical and cultural difference in overlapping personal narratives: it is at one level a self-reflexive statement, akin to a diary or memoir, evolving out of Kholeif’s formative interactions and new encounters with artists, and his own diasporic heritage (as the son of Egyptian and Sudanese parents). At another, it invites viewers to participate in the creation of meaning – to dream of their own aesthetic politics. Accordingly, the parallel title in Arabic has a distinct inflection: “What is the World that you Dream of?”

Film by Laura Bushell.