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Ayman Yossri – I Want To Get Married
Ayman Yossri, born a Palestinian in 1966, has always lived in Saudi Arabia, and the only place he can call home is Jeddah. After his marriage with a Saudi woman he deeply loved broke up, his personal...
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Eric Parnes: The Ishtar Machine
Eric Parnes returns to the second exhibition of Crisis of History with a new project, based on his work ‘Ishtar’ from 2014. About this work the artist said: “The prevalence of unmanned vehicles...
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Imran Ahmad – Muslim Zion
Imran Ahmad’s sculptures are inspired by the cacophony of Lahore city, calling forth both the city’s tense present, and structures of its colonial past. Since 2000, in his practice the artist procures...
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Shadi Alzaqzouq – Don’t Panic!
Shadi Alzaqzouq is a Palestinian artist from Gaza, born in Benghazi (Libya) and residing in Paris since 2005. His paintings have always been intensely connected to his sociopolitical environment. While...
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Alain Declercq: National Insecurity
Alain Declercq, born in Moulins, France in 1969, researches forms of oppression by the State, most notably by its security services, through his artistic practice. His investigations and occasional...
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Nermine Hammam – the Pain of Others
Nermine Hammam is an Egyptian artist born in Cairo in 1967. The works in the Unfolding series were made in the year following the fall of the Mubarak regime (the Arab Spring) and represent attempts by...
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Fight History: list of participating artists and their works
Read about the participating artists on the webpage I made for each of them: Ayman Yossri Daydban (Saudi Arabia) Eric Esmailzadeh Parnes (Iran/USA) Aman Mojadidi (Afghanistan/USA) Nermine Hammam...
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Mohammad Ghazali: Where the Heads of the Renowned Rest
These photographs are taken from the point of view of statues in Tehran’s public spaces. While passers-by always see these national heroes from the outside, mostly ignoring them as they go about their...
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Beyond History – Exercise in Imagination
Beyond History explores the post-history landscape. It is the final part in the Crisis of History series, where artists examine the crisis provoked in the world by the imposition of the End of History....
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Majid Koorang Beheshti
Is what lies Beyond History post-apocalyptic? That may seem quite an easy conclusion, grounded in Hollywood representations of cataclysmic upheavals. This point of view ties the historical narrative...
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