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Installation of photographs with a light - 20 Silver Gelatin Prints with a 5watt incandescent bulb with black wire and 11 video interviews. Editions 3 + AP
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I belong to a community of oil families that were spontaneously put together, they all took a collective life journey, and came back to create a culture of their own. This generation can never be replicated again, and for me it creates an impossible past to relate to … but I want to relate.
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In times of uncertainty it becomes hard to predict the future, and by creating an emotional bond to the past I can place my self in the present and can have an understanding of the historical story I belong to … I wanted to own my future.
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Through conversations and objects that I capture, I create a hybrid experience that blurs the borders that separate the installation, the object and the photograph. I take you through an experiential journey that intensifies your sensory reactions to what is a “collective memory” of a group. In one of my interviews an Oil man said “I was lucky to be part of a generation that saw their dreams become a reality” … I want to dream.
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Exhibition history
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Portrait of a Nation II: Beyond Narratives
Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation (ADMAF) - Abu Dhabi 21 January - 16 April 2022'Portrait of a Nation II: Beyond Narratives, the jewel of Abu Dhabi Festival 2022, has come to a close but the story of the nation’s artistic development as it transpired... -
Reflections,Contemporary Art From the Middle East and North Africa
British Museum - London 17 May - 15 August 2021'This display weaved together a rich tapestry of artistic expression from artists born in, or connected to, countries from Iran to Morocco. With drawings by artists trained everywhere from Paris... -
Ver Versus Ver
Sabrina Amrani Gallery - Madrid 4 July - 8 August 2020'Ver versus ver, a group exhibition that invites to reflect about what is beyond the visible, including works by :mentalKLINIK, Manal AlDowayan, Joël Andrianomearisoa, Amina Benbouchta, Gabriela Bettini, Zoulikha Bouabdellah,... -
Durational Portrait: A Brief Overview of Video Art in Saudi Arabia
ATHR Gallery - Jeddah 19 January - 18 April 2020'“New artistic mediums are rare, and by any measure, video ranks among the defining inventions of any kind in the 20th century. Once relegated to alternative spaces because some didn’t... -
Crude
Jameel Art Center - Dubai 11 November 2018 - 30 March 2019'Bringing together 17 artists and collectives from the region and beyond, ‘Crude‘ explores oil as an agent of social, cultural and economic transformation across the Middle East and North Africa,... -
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
YAY Gallery - Baku 11 June - 31 August 2015'This exhibition will bring together the work of four artists from the Middle East and North America, including a specially commissioned work entitled Mapping Baku, by Roberto Lopardo. Held in... -
Prospect 3: Notes for Now
Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans - New Orleans 25 October 2014 - 25 January 2015'In Walker Percy’s 1961 novel The Moviegoer the protagonist Binx Bolling is consumed by “the search” in the week leading up to his 30th birthday. The novel, set in a... -
Songs of Love and Song of Loss, Oum Kalthoum and Lee-Nan Young
Gwangju Museum of Art - Gwangju 19 May - 25 August 2014'The premise of the exhibition Songs of Loss and Songs of Love is based on an imagined encounter between two singers: Oum Kulthoum (1904–1975) from Egypt and Lee Nan-Young from... -
#COMETOGETHER
Edge of Arabia - London 7 - 28 October 2012'The title, #COMETOGETHER, is a deliberate reference to social networking channels, which have transformed the nature and power of individual expression across the Islamic World in recent years. This exhibit... -
(Solo Show) If I Forget You Dont Forget Me
Cuadro Fine Art Gallery - Dubai 19 March - 9 May 2012Curator: Bashar Al Shroogi More Info
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If I forget you dont forget me: COLLECTION
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