A Public Privacy
Emerging GCC artists facing a context where the private dimension is trivialised in public and the public is immortalised in the private arena. Curatorial essay for the show at DUCTAC, Dubai.
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Local Reciprocal. 2010
Photographic series
Hamad Al Falasi's photographic series Local Reciprocal instantly confronts the artist to his environment, in a conversation visually settled with harmony and a perfectly balanced composition. Al Falasi’s interest in culture is also reflected in another work whose title explicitly states Part-not-Apart, and portrays him in a dream desert landscape wearing the local male dress, in a repeated juxtaposition to compose the United Arab Emirates map. This declared sense of inclusion apparently answers the question about self-positioning in a quickly changing society, where the role of the individual is not that of a simple spectator but instead that of a structural component of society.
© Photo: empty 10, Dubai
Emerging GCC artists facing a context where the private dimension is trivialised in public and the public is immortalised in the private arena. Curatorial essay for the show at DUCTAC, Dubai.