ArteEast introduces the drawings and photography of Ali Kaaf, which are explorations of black itself — as a color, a material and formal presence, and a set of possibilities and foreclosures. More broadly, Kaaf’s works are visual discussions of the contrasts of light and form and their material possibilities. These discussions draw on, but are […]
ArteEast is excited to present the premiere of new work by renowned photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti. Sanguinetti’s color photographs of places and people in Palestine are unique and compelling because they highlight liminality – of childhood, of old age, of living between what is staged and what is spontaneous, of living locked in an uprooted existence. […]
It is no secret that black and white Egyptian films are powerful objects of nostalgia. No secret either that the films are remembered by their actors above all else. My nomination for the most popular Egyptian actor of all time would be the comedian Isma’il Yasin. He was born in 1912 in Port Suez, and […]
ArteEast is excited to launch its Virtual Gallery with Egyptian-American artist Amina Mansour, whose work embodies the spirit of ArteEast’s interest in the intersection of different histories and cultures within and through the Middle East. Mansour’s mixed media works explore the relationship between the antebellum U.S. South and the cotton-growing Nile Delta, and the overlaps […]
Her speech is nothing, Yet the unshaped use of it doth move The hearers to collection Hamlet Installation view of solo show at Townhouse Gallery, 2003 Amina Mansour’s Chapter 15: A Failed Contemporary Attempt at Being a Modern Day Ophelia is the latest installment in her series of works that tell the story of the […]
Alexandria based artist Amina Mansour is a member of a new generation of artists working within Egypt and within a context which both fuels and problematizes a critical position. In her recent work, Mansour has painstakenly fabricated a series of botanical shapes from a material rife with poetic and historic associations. It is this material, […]
In the photographs of Rula Halawani, the daily political reality of life in Palestine is represented. The artist creates and captures images that represent the changes and experiences of Palestinians. The artist suggests, “I am a working artist — a photographer living and working in an intensely political environment…The question of doing ‘political art’ is […]
The skin of fingertips contains the highest density of nerve endings of any body part. From them pain, touch, pressure, temperature are conveyed through the hands’ vivid sensitivity. There is also something ultimately human about hands, and personal. They say that is part of what makes them one of the hardest things to dissect when […]
I am a working artist, a photographer living and working in an intensely political environment. I am more comfortable taking photographs than writing or talking. Therefore I will try and talk about the relationship between art and politics from my own personal experience. The question of doing “political art” is not a question in the […]
Golnaz Fathi is a young Iranian artist whose paintings have been exhibited in a number of important galleries and museums in the Middle East, Europe and the United States over the past twelve years. Her work is transnational both in conception and in execution as it incorporates her extensive training in traditional Iranian calligraphy, graphic […]