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Interview

Memories of the Future: Interview with Syrian artist Ghaith Mofeed

Regional Conversations is a series of online articles by the Ruya Foundation, which addresses issues surrounding art and conflict in the wider Middle East. Last summer, Ghaith Mofeed, a young artist from Damascus, buried half of an expired Syrian document beneath the ground in the town of Cuenca, Ecuador. He gathered some of the soil…

News

Ruya Notebooks #2: Distribution in the Middle East

The second title in the Ruya Foundation’s Ruya Notebooks series, Artist Hiwa K and Curator Aneta Szyłak in Conversation: 8 Essays on Contemporary Art, is being available for free in art spaces and cultural centres across the Middle East. A selection of eight texts on contemporary art and critical theory was made by the internationally acclaimed Iraqi-Kurdish…

Cartoon

‘Art and Elections’: April Cartoon

The Baghdad-based cartoonist Khudair Alhimyari’s series on culture and Iraq continues. This month’s theme is ‘Art and Elections’. Your Favorite Candidate A gallery invigilator ushers a visitor to the exhibition room. The visitor however, admires a series of election posters: ‘I find the work repetitive, but nonetheless beautiful’.

Video

Ruya Shop: ‘Floating World’ a programme of video work presented by Ikon Gallery

Ikon, an internationally acclaimed contemporary art gallery located in Birmingham, UK presents a programme of video work by British and international artists, in partnership with The Ruya Foundation. Floating World includes silent films that variously communicate the strangeness of everyday life, as if to suggest that human beings are aliens on Earth. Artists include Michel…