Green Art Gallery Stages Group Show on Imperial Logics
The Green Art Gallery in Dubai showcases 'All the Lands from Sunrise to Sunset', a collective exhibition that explores the enduring nature of imperial frameworks through various mediums such as language, imagery, materials, and mythology. Featured artists include Alla Abdunabi, Fatma Al Ali, Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck, and Michael Rakowitz. Balteo-Yazbeck’s collages and modified maps reflect imperial aspirations, while Al Ali's piece, 'Once Upon a Pirate Coast', reinterprets British actions against the Qawasim fleet in 1809 by recontextualizing colonial archival visuals. Rakowitz’s ongoing work, 'The invisible enemy should not exist', recreates artifacts looted from the National Museum of Iraq post-2003 invasion using food packaging from the Middle East. Abdunabi investigates the remnants of empire through the Barbary lion and Roman ruins in Libya. The exhibition is currently on display at Green Art Gallery, Dubai, with no specified closing date mentioned in the press release.
Key facts
- Exhibition titled 'All the Lands from Sunrise to Sunset' at Green Art Gallery, Dubai
- Features artists Alla Abdunabi, Fatma Al Ali, Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck, Michael Rakowitz
- Balteo-Yazbeck's work includes collages and altered cartographic works
- Al Ali's 'Once Upon a Pirate Coast' revisits British campaign against Qawasim fleet in 1809
- Rakowitz's 'The invisible enemy should not exist' reconstructs artifacts from National Museum of Iraq
- Abdunabi's works reference Barbary lion extinction and Roman ruins in Libya
- Exhibition examines imperial logics through naming, erasure, reconstruction, repetition
- Press release from Green Art Gallery
Entities
Artists
- Alla Abdunabi
- Fatma Al Ali
- Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck
- Michael Rakowitz
- Eugène Delacroix
- Sargon of Akkad
Institutions
- Green Art Gallery
- National Museum of Iraq
Locations
- Dubai
- United Arab Emirates
- Iraq
- Libya
- Nimrud
- Akkad