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Guest-curated by Yasmina Reggad for aria (artist residency in algiers), the spring edition will focus on Algeria in Part Three of a six-quarter cycle of exhibitions that spotlights artists from the Maghreb, in an extended lead up to the 2014 Marrakech Biennial themed “Where are we now?” This Gallery picks up on the conceptual and regional threads in the last two editions curated by Alya Sebti and Wafa Gabsi. The Economy of Hope [working title] features Algerian artists Amina Menia and Mohamed Bourouissa as they venture to reclaim human agency over hope and an increase emphasis of the active role of the collective in the emancipation of a common future.
For the full curatorial essay, click here.
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History innovates, drifts, staggers. It changes of rail, it is routed: the counter-current generated by a current mingles with the current, and the confusing, becomes current.
Edgar Morin, Entering the 21st Century (2004)
Guest-curated by Wafa Gabsi, the winter edition assembles the Tunisian art scene in Part Two of a six-quarter cycle of exhibitions that spotlights artists from the Maghreb. In an extended lead up to the 2014 Marrakech Biennial themed “where are we now?” this Gallery picks up on the conceptual and regional threads in the last edition on the Moroccan scene curated by biennial director Alia Sebti and leads up to a forthcoming one on the Algerian scene curated by Zineb Sedira and Yasmina Reggad. This edition of Gallery showcases artists who deal with the fragmented history of Tunisia by re-evaluating simple gestures from every day life that provide a creative alternative and contest the redundant influx of images that arose as a result of the country’s recent revolutionary fervor. Featured artists include Ismaël, Fakhri Ghezal, Marianne Catzaras, and Meriem Bouderbela.
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Read the full curatorial essay in French.
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Guest-curated by Alya Sebti (Artistic Director, Marrakech Biennial), the fall issue marks the start of a six-quarter cycle of Gallery that spotlights artists from the Maghreb, and leads up to the 2013 edition of the Marrakech Biennial which asks the question “Where are we now?” The first in the series features Younes Baba Ali and his take on the every day as a platform of resistance. Each subsequent gallery will showcase artists who deal with the every day in their work to reveal the conceptual threads and regional connections that underlie the expanding North African art scene. Following Sebti's focus on Morocco, Zineb Sedira and Yasmina Reggad (/A.R.I.A/) will tackle Algeria, while Wafa Gabsi will address Tunisia.
Read the full curatorial essay here.
View an interview with the Fall featured artist Younes Baba-Ali.
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Featured artists Khalil Rabah, Mona Hatoum, Tarek Al Ghoussein and Ayman Baalbaki offer us an opportunity to explore issues surrounding collective trauma that emanate from both historical concerns and the artists' lived reality. Anchored not in narrative but in a subjective and bodily engagement, these artworks produce an affective response that is not rooted in emotion but in the flow of sensation. All four artists share memories of displacement and dislocation that is often revisited on the symbolically charged keffiyeh, a patriarchal emblem that signifies national struggle and unity in the face of aggression. The manner in which the garment is depicted reveals a wounded consciousness that arises from an unresolved present, caused by war, occupation and exile. By incorporating the male headscarf into their art, the artists not only demonstrate links to cultural histories but also develop a coded language that expresses the particular nature of their experience and allows them to confront and navigate traumatic memories rooted in conflict and loss.
Curated by Wafa Jadallah
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In this gallery, which features artist collective Slavs and Tatars, we look closely at the works’ capacity to embody or enact reality by developing notions of performativity in language and text-based artwork. This edition of the ArteEast Gallery follows the Winter 2012 theme which addressed the topic of Architecture and Performativity. Slavs and Tatars’ practice is devoted to an area east of the Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia, redeeming an oft-forgotten, romantic sphere of influence between Slavs, Caucasians, and Central Asians.
curated by Dina Ibrahim
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