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No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. The exhibition, featuring works dating from 1990 to 2016, conjures various histories intersecting a shared geo-political space: The Arabic-speaking world鈥攁 geographic region that includes the twenty-two countries of the Arab League and whose contemporary coordinates lay between Mauritania, North Africa, and West Asia. To begin in 1990 is to recall a socio-political landscape characterized by shifting regimes of power following Pan-Arabism, the Cold War, the Kuwait War, and the end of the Lebanese Civil War. Today, while battles in Syria and Iraq continue to rage and people are increasingly displaced, radicalism and neoliberal capitalism thrive. The rumblings of these social, political, and economic histories provide a framework for critical engagement with the exhibited works.
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The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. The exhibition, featuring works dating from 1990 to 2016, conjures various histories intersecting a shared geo-political space: The Arabic-speaking world鈥攁 geographic region that includes the twenty-two countries of the Arab League and whose contemporary coordinates lay between Mauritania, North Africa, and West Asia. To begin in 1990 is to recall a socio-political landscape characterized by shifting regimes of power following Pan-Arabism, the Cold War, the Kuwait War, and the end of the Lebanese Civil War. Today, while battles in Syria and Iraq continue to rage and people are increasingly displaced, radicalism and neoliberal capitalism thrive. The rumblings of these social, political, and economic histories provide a framework for critical engagement with the exhibited works.
Artists on show
- Akram Zaatari
- Ala Younis
- Ali Cherri
- Basim Magdy
- Farah Al Qasimi
- Fouad Elkoury
- GCC
- Joana Hadjithomas
- Jumana Manna
- Kader Attia
- Kareem Lotfy
- Khaldoun Chichakli
- Khaled Jarrar
- Khalil Joreige
- Laura Baladi
- Lawrence Abu Hamdan
- Maha Maamoun
- Marwa Arsanios
- Moataz Nasr
- Model Court
- Mohammed Kazem
- Mohssin Harraki
- Mona Hatoum
- Sama Alshaibi
- Sophia Al Maria
- Taysir Batniji
- Thuraya Al-Baqsami
- Walid Ra`ad
- Yto Barrada
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