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Atomic Flower, 2019
Archival Pigment Print
mounted, upholstered frame with African Wax Print
122 x 91,5 cm
Ed. 5 + 1 AP | | | | | | FLUX | | | | 2 November — 14 December 2019 | | | Opening reception: Friday 1 November, 6—8 pm
Introduction: Venetia Porter, Curator, The British Museum
Artist talk with Alia Ali: Saturday, 2 November, 11 am
in conversation with Venetia Porter, Curator Islamic and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art, The British Museum | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Alia Ali
Warp, 2019
Archival Pigment Print
mounted, upholstered frame with African Wax Print
122 x 91,5 cm
Ed. 5 + 1 AP | | | | | | | "FLUX" is a series of shifting photographic artworks that embody silhouettes that are warped by textile, saturated in colors and a medley of motifs. Each frame is uniquely upholstered with wax print sourced from Cote d’Ivoire. While some of the images distort visibility, others create hypervisibility almost negating themselves into animated forms of camouflage. | | | | | | | | | Alia Ali
Ochre Waves, 2019
Archival Pigment Print
mounted, upholstered frame with African Wax Print
122 x 91,5 cm
Ed. 5 + 1 AP | | | | | | | The outburst of saturated colors and hyperoptic motifs in these images, lend themselves to vibrating results obscuring the complex and sometimes iniquitous conditions by which these textiles came into fruition and destabilizing the source(s) from where they came from. The multiple dimensionality creates a kaleidoscope of perspectives, horizontally and vertically. Horizontally, in that this material has come into existence across borders over land and water, and vertically in that they draw from and evoke cosmic, mythical and religious inspirations. Furthermore, these particular wax prints are a key to mapping the colonial trade routes. While they certainly can be seen as escapist dreamscapes, they are also objects of oppression and capitalism. | | | | | | | | | Alia Ali
Flamingo Suns, 2019
Archival Pigment Print
mounted, upholstered frame with African Wax Print
122 x 91,5 cm
Ed. 5 + 1 AP | | | | | | | Alia Ali (Austria, 1985) is a Yemeni-Bosnian-American multi-media artist. She is a graduate of the United World College of the Atlantic (UWCAC) and holds a BA in Studio Art and Middle Eastern Studies from Wellesley College. She is currently finishing her Master of Fine Arts at CalTec, Los Angeles. She has been awarded the Alice C. Cole '42 Grant of Wellesley College, LensCulture’s Emerging Talent Awards 2016 and Gold Winner in a Fine Art Category of the Tokyo International Photo Awards. Alia has exhibited internationally in museums, fairs and festivals including PhotoLondon 2019 in the UK, 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in Morocco, Art Karlsruhe in Germany, the Lianzhou Photo Festival in China, the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam in the Netherlands, the Katzen Museum of Art in Washington DC, The Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, and the Kuala Lumpur Photo Festival in Malaysia. Alia has presented lectures and workshops at Harvard University, the LACMA, the Middle East Institute, Gulf Photo Plus and the Arab American Museum. | | | | | | | | | Alia Ali
Orange Palms, 2019
Archival Pigment Print
mounted, upholstered frame with African Wax Print
122 x 91,5 cm
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