New SAF Art Spaces
Part 1 of the photo tour of Sharjah Biennial 11: Re:emerge. Towards a New Cultural Cartography, 13 March - 13 May 2013. Curator: Yuko Hasegawa. More than 100 participants.
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Venue: SAF Art Spaces GH, elevator's tower
The Prediction Machine. 2013
Painting installations at this venue and in the Calligraphy Center
Mohamed Ali Fadlabi’s work maintains its roots in African culture, tempered by irony and postcolonial theoretical discourse, as he seeks to seduce the viewer with a series of culturally defunct frames of reference. The Prediction Machine tells stories of saints and superheroes. It references Ethiopian church paintings, African barber salon art, Sun Ra’s afrofuturism, retrofuturism and music. The work questions Western norms in art, the meaning of Europe today and the persistent division between what is designated the West and the non-West.
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation.
See also:
Mohamed Ali Fadlabi: The Prediction Machine
Article in: Nafas Art Magazine, 2013
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
© Text: SB11 Guidebook
Part 1 of the photo tour of Sharjah Biennial 11: Re:emerge. Towards a New Cultural Cartography, 13 March - 13 May 2013. Curator: Yuko Hasegawa. More than 100 participants.