Following on from the success of our collection exhibition 'Out of Britain', we are excited to announce a debut UK show by 13 emerging artists from Kuwait, featuring work which explores landscape in its broadest and most expansive sense.
The exhibition is the culmination of a year long project in which a large group of Kuwaiti artists worked with the British Council, The Royal College of Art and Kuwait’s Contemporary Art Platform, through a series of residency seminars and presentations organised by Alia Farid Abdal, a graduate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Professor David Rayson, Head of Painting at the Royal College of Art.
During the residency there were visits to locations that are unique to the landscape and social make up of Kuwait. These excursions included visits to the desert, the Kuwait City souks, the fishing harbour, the Hamra Tower, shopping malls and Kuwait University, as well as meetings with artists in their studios. Interestingly it was also the spaces between these destinations, the highways, the rows of little hedges and groomed trees that line the roads, strings of water pipes, the pylons and power lines and strips of open desert between the building sites, that generated discussions around these artists' relationship to their physical, political, economic and psychological environment.
The majority of the group staged a dynamic exhibition together at the MOMA gallery in Kuwait in October 2012 and the exhibition is now due to open in the UK at the Edge of Arabia gallery in London.
The exhibiting artists are Adel Ashkanani, Ahmad Alshammeri, Amani Althuwaini, Aseel Al Yaqoub, Abdulaziz Alhumaidhi, Mohammed Sharaf, Mohammed Alkouh, Mona Al-Qanai, Muneera Alsharhan, and Nima Algooneh, Roa Alsaheen, Thuraya Lynn and Zahra Al-Mahdi.
EXHIBITION DETAILS
'Out of Kuwait'
14th-28th November 2013
Edge of Arabia, 40 Elcho Street, London, SW11 4AU
Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm. Closed Mondays.
Exhibition discussion: Thursday November 14th 2013, 2 - 5pm.
The exhibition is accompanied by a new publication designed by Mohammed R.Sharaf, with texts by Aseel Al Yaqoub, Andrew Glass and Prof. David Rayson. It can be read online HERE.
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