Current Exhibition
ARA-B-LESS? Show presented by NOUR
Festival @ Saatchi Gallery, London
Wednesday, 4th November, 2015
7:00pm 10:00pm
Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York’s HQ, King’s Road,
London SW3 4RY
ARA-B-LESS? is a collaborative art project by Riffy Ahmed and Sarah El Hamed. They are presenting a visual conversation started between them in the form of an interactive art exhibition exploring the landscape and forms in which identity, perspectives and representation of Arab women and diaspora narratives are represented in both reality and fictional sense (i.e. cinema, popular culture and art) and the middle space that occurs with the collision of these two worlds. This space is the epicentre of where their fascination begins.
Presenting their work with 12 selected emerging artists they have designed 3 landscapes of thought processes with interactive performance and installation art, which the audience can navigate and explore through the grand Saatchi Gallery space.
Artists involved include Riffy Ahmed, Sarah El Hamed, Wejdan Reda, Dictaphone Group, Shadi Alzaqzouq, Ymène Chetouane, Rim Battal, Mourad Krinah, Mohssin Harraki, Meriem Bennani and Hassan Hajjaj with a surprise music guest.
Co-curator: Nada Diane Fridi
In partnership with Specular Collective & nu-mi-die
Booking required:
£12 | £9 concessions
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ara-b-less-tickets-18468228970
More info:
NOUR Festival 2015
https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/subsites/nour/events/performance2015/ara-b-less.aspx
Specular Collective
https://www.facebook.com/specularcollective
nu-mi-die
www.nu-mi-die.com
https://www.facebook.com/nu-mi-die-682763988521511/timeline/
Contact
Riffy Ahmed / Sarah El Hamed
arabless.artproject@gmail.com
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Previous Exhibitions
ARA-B-LESS?: Prelude
@ Galerie Talmart, Paris, France
Thursday 5th, June, 2014
7:00pm
Galerie Talmart, 22 Rue du Cloître Saint-Merri,
75004, Paris, France
PERFORMANCE 'Prelude'
Prelude marks the launch of the ARA-B-LESS project in presenting the initiation of why this conversation began and the journey it is about to embark.
It is a performance that will visualise and animate Riffy and Sarah’s conversation beyond conventional norms of simply chatting to visually highlight the notion of entering and leaving the frame of reality to a hyper real space they called the In/Between.
" Vacillating between "Ara-BLESS / Arab-LESS" value added or lost value, they discuss their understanding of identity in this In/between space as well as the meeting and colliding of words they use in realising their identity is not only in being but is perceived by the viewer.
They engage a conversation before this audience through different mediums: sound, image and role play to animate the duality of their roles as well as the confines and freedoms of where their imagination can take them.