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Evaporating Suns - Zeitgenössische Mythen vom Arabischen Golf
Kulturstiftung Basel H.Geiger
Spitalstrasse 18, 4056 Basel
Young artists from the Arab Gulf region deal with myths of their homeland and bring them into a contemporary context.
Young artists from the Arabian Gulf region deal with myths of their homeland and bring them into a contemporary context. The exhibition, which will be shown at the Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger I KBH.G until July 16, is topical and free of Western-influenced ideas.
Oriental fairy tales and myths in the present day
Our Western image of the Orient is sometimes still strongly influenced by fairy tales from One Thousand and One Nights. But life and art in the Arabian Gulf have changed dramatically in recent decades. This new reality of life is reflected in the exhibitionEvaporating Suns the works of 13 artists between 20 and 30 from Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, from Manama (Bahrain) and from Riyadh (Saudi Arabia).
The result is a variety of artistic positions - sculpture, installation, video, photography, painting or performance art - all of them personal and independent visions of the environment, gender and social power structures.
Evaporating Suns was curated by Munira Al Sayegh, who lives and works in Abu Dhabi, in collaboration with Verena Formanek. The exhibition is accompanied by an in-depth publication in German, English and Arabic.
Contributors and additional information:
Fatema Al Fardan, Abdullah AlOthman, Zuhoor Al Sayegh, Asma Belhamar, Farah Al Qasimi, Fatima Uzdenova, Mashael Alsaie, Maitha Abdalla, Saif Mhaisen, Bu Yousuf, Mays Albaik, Alaa Edris and Moza Almatrooshi.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
Oriental fairy tales and myths in the present day
Our Western image of the Orient is sometimes still strongly influenced by fairy tales from One Thousand and One Nights. But life and art in the Arabian Gulf have changed dramatically in recent decades. This new reality of life is reflected in the exhibitionEvaporating Suns the works of 13 artists between 20 and 30 from Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, from Manama (Bahrain) and from Riyadh (Saudi Arabia).
The result is a variety of artistic positions - sculpture, installation, video, photography, painting or performance art - all of them personal and independent visions of the environment, gender and social power structures.
Evaporating Suns was curated by Munira Al Sayegh, who lives and works in Abu Dhabi, in collaboration with Verena Formanek. The exhibition is accompanied by an in-depth publication in German, English and Arabic.
Contributors and additional information:
Fatema Al Fardan, Abdullah AlOthman, Zuhoor Al Sayegh, Asma Belhamar, Farah Al Qasimi, Fatima Uzdenova, Mashael Alsaie, Maitha Abdalla, Saif Mhaisen, Bu Yousuf, Mays Albaik, Alaa Edris and Moza Almatrooshi.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.