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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…

News

Ruya Notebooks #2: Hiwa K and Aneta Szyłak in Conversation: 8 Essays Selected By the Artist and the Curator

The Ruya Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of its new publication Hiwa K and Aneta Szyłak in Conversation: 8 Essays Selected By the Artist and the Curator. This is the second title in Ruya’s educational publishing project, Ruya Notebooks. For each Notebook a well known artist, curator or critic selects five short texts…

Exhibition

Unravelling Baghdad: Ala Younis’ new installation Plan (fem.) for a Greater Baghdad at the Delfina Foundation

In the early days of the first Gulf War in 1991, the Iraqi artist and writer Nuha Al Radhi dreamt of a tree sprouting loaves of bread. In another dream, American troops marched down Haifa Street, a newly-restored residential quarter in Baghdad, led by a woman wearing a cape. Haifa Street’s state of the art, futuristic…

Event

The exhibition ‘Latif Al Ani Through the Lens: 1953 – 1979’ opens at the Sharjah Art Foundation

A major solo exhibition of the Iraqi photographer Latif Al Ani, ‘Latif Al Ani Through the Lens: 1953 – 1979’ opens on 16 March at the Sharjah Art Foundation. The text for the exhibition guide is written by Tamara Chalabi, who was responsible for bringing Al Ani’s work back to light after years of neglect.…