Fall 2017
A black and white photograph captured in secret. In the foreground, it is impossible to distinguish blurred facial features of a young man who does not dare to reveal his gaze. There is a modesty in the revelation and impression of the subject. This is the image of exile that makes one away from themselves……
Maymanah Farhat
By Maymanah Farhat Fall 2017 | ArteZine Decades ago—in the absence of art fairs, commercial galleries, independent arts organizations, private collections, and government initiatives artists in the Arabic-speaking countries of West Asia planned exhibitions, symposiums, workshops, and biennials. In addition to contributing artworks, they formed curatorial committees, acted as jurors for art prizes; worked as fundraisers;…
“I’ll give my life, I won’t give up my water!” cries a voice (dubbed “Crone Who Went to the SHP”) in the publication that Istanbul-based artists İz Öztat and Fatma Belkıs penned as part of their collaborative project Who Carries The Water. The research-based installation was initially commissioned by the 14th Istanbul Biennial in 2015, having its…
Winter 2014
Adham Hafez
By Adham Hafez Winter 2014 | ArteZine This publication deals thematically with ruptures in a given artistic practice or within a country’s arts history, with special attention to power dynamics in the art world. As a consequence it also deals with propaganda and the role of the state in shaping certain dynamics of power. HaRaKa operates…
Ismail Fayed
By Ismail Fayed Winter 2014 | ArteZine There is a certain weariness among Egyptians living now under the rule of a complicit and corrupt military regime. A survey of recent social media and online platforms reveals that attempts at “propaganda” are commonly judged to be somewhere between “pitiful” and “disgusting”, and inspire an intense negative emotional…
Sawsan Gad
By Sawsan Gad Winter 2014 | ArteZine The Reda Troupe is an iconic Egyptian dance company that survived six decades of Egyptian political history, and Egyptian dance history. The company produced work that raised questions on contemporaneity and tradition, as well as on what are the references of Arab and Egyptian modernism in dance and performance,…
Abdullah Al-Bayyari
By Abdullah Al-Bayyari Winter 2014 | ArteZine One of the first goals of state power, is in controlling the body by direct engineering of the containing space and time. It is often one of the most common scenes to be performed by the stifling regime. (the term “regime” here does not only refer to the political…
By Adham Hafez Winter 2014 | ArteZine On ruptures and new shifts in the artistic practice of Egyptian visual artist Shayma Aziz “The painting flashed one night through my head, as I was in my studio in Cairo. I was passing some time reflecting on old works of mine, studying how I used to see things”….
Alya Sebti, Wafa Gabsi
By Alya Sebti and Wafa Gabsi Winter 2014 | Gallery This issue marks the last installment of a six-quarter cycle of the Gallery that spotlights artists from the Maghreb leading up to the 2014 edition of the Marrakech Biennial. Each subsequent gallery will showcase artists who deal with the every day in their work to reveal the conceptual…
By Alya Sebti and Wafa Gabsi Winter 2014 | Gallery Ils l’ont vu surgir avant de le faire surgir d’eux-mêmes. Ils l’ont observé, ils l’ont interrogé, ils l’ont domestiqué. Les papillons se brûlent les ailes infiniment. Les humains créent perpétuellement. A chacun sa tragédie du feu. C’est quand ils ont maîtrisé le feu que les humains ont inventé…
