ArteEast's Gallery aims to create an on-line presence for emerging as well as established artists operating within and outside the Middle East and North Africa. The Gallery is curated by Dina Ibrahim, and guest curators are invited periodically to showcase their curatorial story.
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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
For the full curatorial essay, click here.
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This edition of the gallery examines the works of artist Abbas Akhavan from various critical perspectives that delineate between capitalist processes of production and social interventions while examining the role of architecture and space in shaping an artwork's impact on audiences. Dina Ibrahim’s essay departs from where the previous virtual gallery landed - the use of architecture in contemporary art - and investigates the performative elements in Akhavan’s work resulting from his incorporation of architecture, which operates to highlight various social and economic conditions. Shumon Basar’s article takes the economic aspect and capitalizes on it while Mohammad Salemy’s text highlights the futility of it all.
curated by Dina Ibrahim
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Babak Golkar's concept-driven artistic practice extends effortlessly across diverse media, ranging from drawing, video, sculpture and site-specific installation while maintaining focus in its subjects and issues addressed. His work primarily explores the psychological effects on the observer resulting from the use of architecture.
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Featured in this edition of the Virtual Gallery, ArteEast's major visual arts exhibition - Tarjama/Translation - maps an influential subset of recent work from the Middle East and Central Asia and its diasporas as a complex and dynamic translational undertaking. Rather than highlighting the region as its main thematic or providing a panoramic, and thus fleeting, exposure to “Middle Eastern art,” Tarjama/Translation focuses on the common yet complex theme of cultural, artistic and critical translation.
This Virtual Gallery not only highlights work from Tarjama/Translation, but also offers exclusive insights into the entire exhibition process, from curatorial vision to installation. The Virtual Gallery features video interviews with artists Ersa Ersen, Wael Shawky, Lara Baladi, curator Leeza Ahmady, and a critical essay by Elliott Colla. In addition, essays written by critics, curators and artists accompany the works available online.
And be sure not to miss the Tarjama/Translation exhibition itself at the Queens Museum of Art, open now through September 2009.
• Featured Artists
• Artist Interviews
Esra Ersen
Lara Baladi
Ayad Alkadhi
Hamdi Attia
Wael Shawky
• Curatorial Essays
Leeza Ahmady
Iftikhar Dadi
Reem Fadda
• Installation, Exhibit and Opening Night Video
• Dragomen and Checkpoints by Elliott Colla
Buy the Tarjama Catalog
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