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21 Assemblages on paper
Bahman Mohassess
1989—2010
He began culling images from newspapers and magazines, instinctively juxtaposing them.
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Bahman Mohassess
1989—2010
He began culling images from newspapers and magazines, instinctively juxtaposing them.
Fateh Moudarres
1962—1998
Fateh Moudarres is widely considered to be one of Syria and the Arab world’s seminal modernists.
Elias Zayat
1981—2009
Figures intertwine, almost floating, while recurring images of faces recall Zayat’s other endeavour – conservator and restorer of orthodox icons.
Ziad Dalloul
1999
Considered among the most accomplished Arab painters and printmakers, Ziad Dalloul has been captivated with natures mortes, or still life, noting that the English word describes his practice more faithfully than the French one.
Cabinet
2011
In the late nineteenth century, trade cards – long used by merchants to advertise their businesses – became what we today know as ‘trading cards’.
Artur Żmijewski
2005
A Dream of Warsaw documents the work leading up to an exhibition by Polish architect, urban planner, theorist and teacher Oskar Hansen.
Raffie Davtian
2011
Installation in collaboration with Neda Saeedi.
Amar Kanwar
2010
A Love Story is a miniature narrative in four acts where time becomes fluid as the image is distilled to its inner self.
Khaled Hourani
2011
Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon are prohibited from practicing more than seventy professions, except, fortunately, art.
Hala Al-Ani
2010
A Typology of Houses is a descriptive record of culture made manifest in the building vernacular of residential housing in Dubai.
Newsreel Archives of Soviet Television
1961—1971
Two thirty-five-minute videos assemble sequences borrowed from news reports from the archives of Soviet Television in the last century.
Matt Saunders
2010—2011
Matt Saunders scuttles boundaries between media to make works that balance between the painted and the photographic.
CAMP
2009
The Neighbour Before the House is a series of video probes into the landscape of East Jerusalem.
Hicham Ayouch
2011
Set in the lush Rif mountains of northern Morocco, As They Say spans the length of a weekend camping trip where a father and his son hike in a forest to fish in a beautiful lake.
Ayouha al Arabe is a montage of sonic raw materials in search of remixers to turn it into revolution rock / dub / electro / poetry / ambient sound / a social media soundtrack — or what you will.
Ramin Haerizadeh
2010
In his new body of works Ramin Haerizade depicts multiple reproductions of the self, as fractured, mirrored, morphed, amorphous, cross-gendered, bestial, a Kafkaesque indeterminate creature with a distinctly evolved phallicism.
Imran Qureshi
2011
Red organic forms highlighted with strokes of white paint gently swarm across the courtyard of Beit Al Serkal.
Mark Lombardi (1951—2000) lived and worked in New York City.
Ziad Antar
2010
Shot with Black and White Negra 120 negative expired in 1976
Judith Barry
2010—2011
Cairo Stories… continues an on-going series of ‘as-told-to’ recorded stories, based on personal interviews.
Hans Haacke
1989—2011
In 1989, Hans Haacke was invited to participate in a competition for a work celebrating the bicentennial of the Assemblée Nationale.
Abdullah Al Saadi
2010
Camar Cande’s Journey chronicles a trek Abdullah Al Saadi took through the northern region of the United Arab Emirates and Oman.
Ziad Dalloul
2010
Ziad Dalloul's earthen palette, recalling memories of the lands of his childhood in Syria and Algeria, is the artist’s spiritual reckoning of thinking the past in the present.
Melik Ohanian
2011
DAYS, I See what I Saw and what I will See explores the notion of producing a continuous representation of space and a discontinuous representation of time – at the same time.
Tom Molloy
2005
In this work six separate sheets of hand-cut paper show carvings of Arabic script. Arabic is the first spoken language of nearly 300 million people.
Gilbert Hage
2009
Gilbert Hage’s Eleven Views of Mount Ararat appears in the context of various houses of members of the Armenian community of Lebanon.
Hrair Sarkissian
2008
Execution Squares (2008) depicts public squares in three Syrian cities–Aleppo, Latakia and Damascus–where public execution occurred and in some cases, continues.
Shumon Basar, Eyal Weizman,
Jane and Louise Wilson
2011
Face Scripting is a story, that ghosts the Dubai Police’s forensic film. It rehearses the generic architectural syntax of hotel rooms, corridors and lobbies – those thresholds of blank transition.
Yto Barrada
An exterior territory is necessary to resolve conflicts. Problems are never resolved face to face.
Rokni Haerizadeh
2010
'Devoid of pitiful moralising and surpassing fetishistic infatuation with depictions of human sordidness, in the series Fictionville Rokni Haerizadeh cunningly (and controversially) violates and perverts found photographic media images depicting human suffering into an anthropomorphic Orwellian world of fairytales: humourous,grotesque, satirical, bitter.'
Slavs and Tatars
2011
From 17th century Sarmatism, the dominant ideology amongst the Polish nobility, to monobrows in America and the Green movement in presentday Iran, Friendship of Nations traces an ambitious if unlikely genealogy between Iran and Poland.
Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency
2011
The project of a 3D (stereoscopic) film by Armin Linke and Francesco Mattuzzi completed with the visual effects created by Francesco Siddi refers to the 19th century invention of stereoscopic technology.
Rayyane Tabet
2011
The Sharjah Cricket Stadium was built in 1981 by an Emirati entrepreneur upon his return home from studying in Pakistan.
Raffie Davtian
2011
Installation in collaboration with Neda Saeedi.
Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency
2010
Michael Bears’s illustrations, cast in the vocabulary of graphic novels are a map of DAAR’s networks and origin of projects.
Samir Sayegh
2010
In Praise of Letters is a manifesto by Samir Sayegh, one of the most accomplished and innovative visual artists working with the form and discourse of calligraphy.
Walid Raad
2011
Over the past decade Walid Raad has been fascinated by the emergence of new art museums, galleries, schools and cultural foundations in Arab cities, by way of which the makers, sponsors, consumers, forms and histories of Arab art are becoming more and more visible.
Julia Meltzer and David Thorne
2003
It’s not my memory of it is a documentary based on interviews conducted in 2000 with people who manage intelligence information in the US government.
Bahman Kiarostami
2011
Javad Yassari rose to fame in the late 1970s in Lalezar, Tehran’s club strip where he sang in smoky theatres and cabarets.
Aisha Khalid
2011
Through Aisha Khalid’s labour-intensive process of inserting pins through a layer of two shawls, Kashmiri Shawl inspires contradictory responses.
Jean-Luc Moulène
2010
In 2004, Jean-Luc Moulène notices a stalk of Paulownia growing through a crack in the asphalt in Paris, next to the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry building, which spans nos 121 to 135 rue de Bercy.
Alfredo Jaar
2002
Lament of the Images is a philosophical essay on representation
Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency
2010
The installation explores the thickness of the boundaries, and follows it along edges of villages and towns, across fields, orchards, roads, gardens, kindergartens, fences, terraces, homes, public buildings, a football stadium, a mosque and finally a large recently built castle.
Jem Cohen and Luc Sante
2009
Jem Cohen and Luc Sante were invited to Tangier to collaborate on a short film in a city where neither had ever been.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2007
Apichatpong Weerasethakul produced Le Jardin de Ma Mère in response to an invitation by Eric Troncy, who, with Victoire de Castellane, designed a collection of jewelry for Christian Dior.
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
2011
In the early 1960s, a group of students led by professor of mathematics Manoug Manougian at the Armenian Haigazian University in Lebanon designed and launched rockets for the purpose of exploring and studying space.
Emily Jacir
2009
Lydda Airport is a short film named after the facility built in 1930 in what was then known as the British Mandate of Palestine.
Mustapha Benfodil
2011
Maportaliche/ It has no importance is a mixed-media installation of a patchwork of words, texts, short descriptions in languages from the artist’s lived socio-linguistic reality in Algeria as well as from his world of literary and theatrical production.
Meditations on Inertia, and Other Low Key Qualities was made using live recordings and samples in an electronic collaboration that took place across two continents.
Imran Qureshi
2006—2009
Imran Qureshi painted this series of portraits when he realised that after 9/11, the world insisted on segregating religious people.
Jalal Toufic
2006
My experience of collaborating in an untimely manner with Gus Van Sant was not a happy one.
Omar Rajeh
2011
In this new creation, Omar Rajeh looks into the body; more precisely, he attempts to deconstruct, alienate, re-discover, and question our perception of the human body system today.
Houman Mortazavi
2009—2010
Houman Mortazavi is a Tehran based multi-media artist whose practice is remarkably versatile.
Ahmad Ghossein
2011
All that remains from Rashid Ghossein and Mariam Hamadeh’s relationship is a large collection of messages recorded over a period of ten years on audiocassettes.
Lynn Love and Ann Sappenfield
2011
The encyclopaedia is a monumental work of instruction, aiming to treat everything that can be learned by a person in his or her lifetime.
Jumana Emil Abboud
2011
Night Journey follows stories of pilgrimage and devotional practice and focuses on the symbols and instruments of communication or communion with and between the supernatural and mankind.
Julia Meltzer and David Thorne
2003
Not a matter of if but when was developed in 2005-2006 in Damascus, Syria.
Aisha Khalid
2010
In Aisha Khalid’s Pattern to Follow series, the artist devises a contemporary approach to painting classical Islamic geometric patterns.
Kamran Shirdel
1975
Kamran Shirdel is considered one of the pioneers of the social documentary.
Jem Cohen
2010
These intermixed photographs of Tangier, and Cohen’s home city, New York, all originated as three-inch-square polaroids – a discontinued format.
Marie-Hélène Cauvin
2007—2010
'The subjects all chose their own elements to represent and identify them in the form of a tattoo superimposed on their portraits.' Marie Hélène Cauvin
Jumana Emil Abboud
2011
Borrowing elements from Palestinian folk belief and superstition, Quest for Spouse directs its attention to magic, healing, play and longing.
Almagul Menlibayeva and Bahar Behbahani
2011
Almagul Menlibayeva and Bahar Behbahani explore the dialogue between two ancient cultures that border the Caspian Sea on the crossroads of the Middle East and Central Asia.
Jorge Tacla
2007—2010
Jorge Tacla’s Escombros series (signifying 'rubble' or 'debris' in Spanish) depicts a bombed-out cityscape inspired from photographs of Beirut after the July 2006 Israeli War.
Shohreh Mehran
2009—ongoing
An increasingly established painter in the Iranian scene, Shohreh Mehran’s practice subverts representation and seeing.
Simone Fattal
2006—2011
Simone Fattal’s practice has always been informed by war and its historical contexts.
Guillaume Cassar
2011
The Spartan scytale is the communication tool that does the most harm to the universality of language.
Alexis Bhagat and Lize Mogel
2011
The Sharjah InfoCart is a mobile kiosk that traveled to malls and outdoor public places in Sharjah including Al Qasba, Sahara Centre Mall, Rolla, and Al-Jubail bus station, during January and February 2011.
Rosalind Nashashibi
2011
The areesh, a traditional Emirati palm shelter used as housing until the 1950s, functions in Shelter for a New Youth to provide protection from the sun.
Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia
2011
Rania Attieh is from Tripoli, Lebanon. She is an MFA graduate in Media Art Production as a writer/director of fiction from the City College of New York.
Youssef Abdelké
2010
Both his etchings and charcoal drawings are carvings of light from within darkness, representations of silence.
Doug Ashford
2010—2011
Doug Ashford is a New York based artist, teacher and writer whose work considers exhibition, display and other social production as formal models for speculation and reconsideration.
Ziad Dalloul
2004
Considered to be among the most accomplished Arab painters and printmakers, Dalloul’s works merge contemporary disciplines with traditional materials such as ink, sepia and handmade paper.
Tom Molloy
2008
Two hundred and thirty five individual drawings depicting the pages of George Orwell’s novel 1984.
Karim Aïnouz
2011
Sunny Lane is Sonnenallee in German, a famous street in the south west of Berlin, home to a large number of Arab immigrants.
Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens
2010—2011
Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens’ practice is infused with a long-standing desire to make language visible.
Ammar Bouras
2011
'In the eyes of the Islamist terrorists I belonged to the hateful category of the tagh’out' – a traitor to the cause of God.
Atfal Ahdath
2010—2011
Portraits of the artists shot in studios in Beirut, Damascus, Cairo and Sharjah.
Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency
2011
The Book of Profanation, exhibited here for the first time as an experimental prototype, is a compendium of recent projects by Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR).
Raffie Davtian
2011
The Evolution of the Angel in Line with the State of Exception, features a series of photos that act as portraits of angels.
Josephine Meckseper
2011
Josephine Meckseper evokes an apocalyptic retail environment within this installation
Bouchra Khalili
2008—2011
The Mapping Journey Project is a mixed-media installation that combines eight video works and a printed map.
Doug Ashford
2010
Doug Ashford is a New York based artist, teacher and writer whose work considers exhibition, display and other social production as formal models for speculation and reconsideration.
Vartan Avakian
1979—1989
In 1979, Samir Ghosseini’s Hasna’ wa ‘Amaliqa (The Beauty and the Giants) premiered in Beirut, marking the launch of the Lebanese action cinema genre.
Raffie Davtian
2011
This sculpture is a reproduction of an imaginary torso of a spiritual substant the homos-angelus - an angel whose anatomical skeleton resembles a multi-winged human being.
Anna Boghiguian
2010—2011
Anna Boghiguian’s project is about migration, whether of goods and ideas or the movement of people in global labour markets.
Yto Barrada
2010
Notebooks of Z.A.B. She was my grandmother and was illiterate. She gave birth to twelve children, of whom ten lived. To keep in touch with them all she made herself a telephone directory from an old recipe notebook...
Rania Stephan
2011
The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni is an attempt to tell the story of Soad Hosni, one of Egypt’s most famous film stars who starred in eighty-two feature films between 1959 and 1991.
Amar Kanwar
2004—2008
An ode to the thousands struggling for democracy in Burma.
Mariam Ghani
2010—2011
For The Trespassers, Mariam Ghani hired Afghan-Americans who had previously worked as translators for the US military in Afghanistan, translating documents related to US military prisons in Afghanistan.
Naeem Mohaiemen
2011
Naeem Mohaiemen is a writer and artist working in Dhaka and New York. His essays, films and photography explore the theme of failed utopias.
Adel Abidin
2010
Their Dreams is a work inspired from children's stories of their dreams about what they could be and what they hope to receive from the world.
Akram Zaatari
2010
A late-night chat between two former lovers who have not been in contact for ten years transforms into a compelling elegy of loss and longing.
Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens
2010
Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens’ practice is infused with a long-standing desire to make language visible.
Sean Gullette
2011
Malika lives a double life. By day, she is a conservatively dressed student and call-centre worker,who lives with her parents in the old kasbah of Tangier.
Shohreh Mehran
2011—ongoing
These three Untitled paintings are the beginnings of a new, yet to be finished series, inspired from photographs that have appeared in the press during the 2009 elections.
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Hatem Imam
2010—2011
Vicarious Dreams consists of seven landscapes based on photographs of construction digs that Hatem Imam has been taking in Beirut since 2009.
Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică
1993
Videograms of a Revolution assembles video footage of the Romanian revolution recorded at the end of 1989.
Ali Essafi
2011
In the 1970s, Moroccan schoolboys and students dreamed of freedom and democracy.
Raed Yassin
2010—2011
Who Killed the King of Disco is a multi-media installation exploring the conflicting facts and context surrounding the artist’s father’s murder.
Ebtisam Abdulaziz
2010
In Women’s Circles the artist worked with a dancer to perform a series of movements; a photographer has captured each movement as a series of frozen moments.
Dan Brault
2010—2011
Each painting in the installation You and Me (constructing identity) plays in an autoreferential cycle that constantly hovers between the perception of the part and the whole.
Zanga Zanga Tunisia Part I is a narrative audio experience about the Tunisian revolution.