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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.…

Video

Ruya Shop: Dimitri Kirsanoff’s Menilmontant (1926)

This weekend, the Ruya Shop is screening the film Menilmontant (1926) by Dimitri Kirsanoff The Russian filmmaker Dimitri Kirsanoff emigrated to Paris in the 1920s and became involved in cinema by playing the cello in the orchestra at film screenings. His inexpensive experimental films, made alone without a production company, were important contributions to the…