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Ruya Shop: Aladeen Mohammad Kazem

The Ruya Shop presents a solo exhibition of Aladeen Mohammad Kazem’s recent paintings. The Hilla-based artist studied fine art and drawing at the University of Babylon, and his work is in private collections in Iraq and abroad. Kazem’s work brings together stories from Iraq’s contemporary reality, with references to its ancient history. His deep concern…
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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…
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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…
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Ruya Shop: Fouad El Khoury’s Welcome to Beirut (2005)

This week the Ruya Shop is screening the film Welcome to Beirut (2005) by Lebanese artist Fouad El Khoury. “Welcome to Beirut is about daily life: driving in the city, going to the hairdresser, discussions with the grocer, visiting a motor show, a wax museum, dining out. […] More ironic than sarcastic, the film reveals…