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Posing in Pop, 2023
Pigment Print, mounted, framed with handprinted cotton from Rajasthan
167.5 x 117 x 7.5 cm
Edition of 3 + 2 AP | | | | | | Frequencies | | | | 4 November – 16 December 2023 | | | Opening: Friday, 3 November, 6—8 pm
in the presence of Alia Ali | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Alia Ali
Dreamer, 2023
Pigment Print, mounted, framed with handprinted cotton from Rajasthan
117 x 168 x 7.5 cm
Edition of 3 + 2 AP | | | | | | "Motion is emotion. Everything gives off waves of energy, otherwise called frequencies. They are the very fiber of our being." Alia Ali
In her fourth solo exhibition with us, Alia Ali presents vibrant and energetic new work. Full-body portraits are more common, often appearing to be in motion, and her formats have become more variable. For the first time, Alia Ali also ventures into sculpture — her hand-carved works made of Lapis Lazuli re-imagine millennia-old artifacts from her home country Yemen and are part of her "Yemeni Futurism" project. | | | | | | | | | Alia Ali
Strike, 2023
Pigment Print, mounted, framed with handprinted cotton from Rajasthan
53 x 86.5 x 7.5 cm
Edition of 3 + 2 AP | | | | | | | Alia Ali (Arabic: عاليه علي // Sabean: 𐩲𐩱𐩡𐩺𐩲|𐩲𐩱𐩡) is a Yemeni-Bosnian-US multi-media artist whose work explores cultural binaries, challenges culturally sanctioned oppression, and confronts the dualistic barriers of conflicted notions of gender, politics, media, and citizenship. Working between language, photography, video, textile, and installation, Ali’s work addresses the politicization of the body, histories of colonization, imperialism, sexism, and racism through projects that take pattern and textile as their primary motif. | | | | | | | | | Alia Ali
Inspiral, 2023
Pigment Print, mounted, framed with handprinted cotton from Rajasthan
113 x 90 x 7.5 cm
Edition of 3 + 2 AP | | | | | | Ali is currently expanding her practice by drawing on stories from Yemen including the nostalgic past of Queen Belquis of Saba (also known as the Queen of Sheba). By investigating histories of the distant past, she addresses the realities of the dystopian present in order to carve out spaces for radically imagined possibilities for the future in what has evolved to be Yemeni Futurism.
Ali is a graduate of Wellesley College and the California Institute of the Arts. She lives and works in and between New Orleans, Paris and Jaipur and is the recipient of the prestigious ARTSY Vanguard Emerging Artist Award and is a NIKON Global Ambassador. | | | | | | | | | Alia Ali
Maryam, 2023
Afghani Electric Blue Lapis Lazuli
hand carved by master carvers in Jaipur, Rajasthan
ca. 36 x 20 x 20 cm
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