No night is long enough for us to dream twice
An exhibition of contemporary photography and video, bringing together more than 100 works by seven living artists and one artist duo from across South West Asia, North Africa and its many diasporas.
When:
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Location:
The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Perth Cultural Centre, Perth, 6000
Tickets:
Free
Overview
No night is long enough for us to dream twice (a title borrowed from a line by the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish) brings together photography and video by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Mohamad Abdouni, Myriam Boulos, Hicham Benohoud, Mohamed Bourouissa, Sabiha Çimen, Hannah Darabi and Abdulhamid Kircher.
While these artists work across South West Asia, North Africa and their diasporas, what they share is less a common geography than a relation to pressure. Their images emerge from physical and emotional sites where social forces build, break, then build again.
Image credits - Abdulhamid Kircher Untitled 2022. Silver gelatin print. Courtesy of the artist and carlier | gebauer, Berlin and Madrid. © Abdulhamid Kircher. Çimen A plane flies low over students at an amusement park. Istanbul, 2018 from the series ‘Hafiz’ 2021. Archival pigment print, 80 x 80 cm. Courtesy LOOCK, Berlin. © Sabiha Çimen / Magnum Photos.
While these artists work across South West Asia, North Africa and their diasporas, what they share is less a common geography than a relation to pressure. Their images emerge from physical and emotional sites where social forces build, break, then build again.
Image credits - Abdulhamid Kircher Untitled 2022. Silver gelatin print. Courtesy of the artist and carlier | gebauer, Berlin and Madrid. © Abdulhamid Kircher. Çimen A plane flies low over students at an amusement park. Istanbul, 2018 from the series ‘Hafiz’ 2021. Archival pigment print, 80 x 80 cm. Courtesy LOOCK, Berlin. © Sabiha Çimen / Magnum Photos.
- Northbridge