Winter 2007
Hamdi Attia
By ArteEast Winter 2007 | Gallery ArteEast is pleased to kick off 2007 with an exhibition of recent digital media works by Hamdi Attia. The works featured here explore different aspects of the relationship between translation and political, social, and economic power. In video essays dealing with aspects of American culture ranging from movies and personal…
Hamdi Attia, Abdellah Karroum
By Abdellah Karroum Winter 2007 | Gallery The artist’s desire to understand his world and to represent it, to offer it as a living place, a place that is at once nowhere and completely unique, is a fundamental part of the artist’s project, of his way of being in the world. Hamdi Attia is a careful…
Hamdi Attia, Waiel Waiel Ashry
By Waiel Waiel Ashry Winter 2007 | Gallery Hamdi Attia’s latest work can be read as a detailed study of the social and political implications inherent in the act of translation. In four of his latest works, Attia inscribes his presence – as artist, as commentator– on already existing texts and discourses. This presence takes the…
Hamdi Attia, Lucy Lippard
By Lucy Lippard Winter 2007 | Gallery With Public Figures, a series of densely political videos manipulated so that the subjects expose themselves and their post 9/11 agendas, Hamdi Attia slyly insinuates himself into their discourse — into the billion-dollar business of TV news and commentary. Born, raised, and art-schooled in Egypt, now living in New York,…
Fall 2007
Nizar Qabbani
By Nizar Qabbani Fall 2007 | ArteZine 1 My voice rings out, this time, from Damascus It rings out from the house of my mother and father In Sham. The geography of my body changes. The cells of my blood become green. My alphabet is green. In Sham. A new mouth emerges for my mouth A…
Suhail Shadud, Marlin Dick
By Suhail Shadoud and Marlin Dick Fall 2007 | ArteZine Story by Suhail Shadoud Translated by Marlin Dick Four in the morning, in the East Village. A band’s playing in the loft of the restaurant. A girl’s playing with the band. I know her. It’s a Brazilian song, and my head could ignite a thousand fires. The fire…
Flavia Codsi
By ArteEast Fall 2007 | Gallery ArteEast continues to bring you the best of the Beirut art scene with its fall 2007 Virtual Gallery exhibition featuring the work of painter Flavia Codsi. Codsi redefines realism and modernism by painting classic subjects in ways that shake up typical art historical chronologies and preconceived notions of contemporary Lebanese…
Christa Salamandra
By Christa Salamandra Fall 2007 | ArteZine Guest Editor: Christa Salamandra Nostalgia permeates literary and expressive culture in the Arab world. Exile, loss, defeat, rupture find expression in a variety of cultural forms, in song, prose and poetry, on the big and small screen, and in restaurants and cafés. Nostalgia reflects all the paradoxes and contradictions…
Deborah Kapchan
By Deborah Kapchan Fall 2007 | ArteZine Modernity is often associated with industrialism, technology and the loss of pastoral ways of life. Nostalgia is the sentiment that modernity yields—a structure of feeling characterized by a mourning for the authentic. Serematakis tells us that the word nostalgia comes from the Greek nostalghia, a composite word that corresponds…
By Christa Salamandra Fall 2007 | ArteZine Before the 1990s, elite Damascenes rarely ventured into the Old City, a place then associated with the backwardness of an embarrassing past. Most wealthy, “old notable” families moved from their Old City neighborhoods decades ago; their children and grandchildren are returning to them now, not to live as their…
