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Kamrooz Aram, Installation view at Desorientalismos, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain, 2020

Kamrooz Aram, Installation view at Desorientalismos

Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain, 2020

Kamrooz Aram, Installation view at Desorientalismos, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain, 2020

Kamrooz Aram, Installation view at Desorientalismos

Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain, 2020

Kamrooz Aram, Installation view at Desorientalismos, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain, 2020

Kamrooz Aram, Installation view at Desorientalismos

Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain, 2020

Kamrooz Aram, Installation view at Desorientalismos, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain, 2020

Kamrooz Aram, Installation view at Desorientalismos

Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain, 2020

Kamrooz Aram, Installation view at Desorientalismos, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain, 2020

Kamrooz Aram, Installation view at Desorientalismos

Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain, 2020

Kamrooz Aram, Installation view at Desorientalismos, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain, 2020

Kamrooz Aram, Installation view at Desorientalismos

Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain, 2020

Kamrooz Aram, Installation view at Desorientalismos, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain, 2020

Kamrooz Aram, Installation view at Desorientalismos

Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain, 2020

Kamrooz Aram, Installation view at Desorientalismos, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain, 2020

Kamrooz Aram, Installation view at Desorientalismos

Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain, 2020

Installation view at Desorientalismos, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain, 2020.

Installation view at Desorientalismos, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain, 2020.

Press Release

The exhibition Disorientalisms, part of the museum’s ongoing enquiry into artistic production in North Africa and the Near East, is based on Edward W. Said’s famous book Orientalism, first published in 1978. The show attempts to explore a geography invented by colonialism that aims to “orientalize the oriental” in cultural representations. The title of the show alludes to this legacy as well as to the idea of disorientation, a loss of bearings that can generate cartographies other than those drawn by Western historians.

Thanks to its historic ties with the East, Andalusia participated in this orientalizing vision, as attested by numerous Romantic travellers, and its geographical situation makes it a tangential border zone. Moreover, as Said accurately noted in the preface to the Spanish edition of his book, “Andalusia is a great symbol”, not only because Islam was a part of its culture for several centuries, but also because it exemplifies a social model in which “cultures share”, as opposed to the old model of imperial domination.

The group exhibition includes work from the following artists: Amina Agueznay, Kamrooz Aram, Ariella Azoulay, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Gülsün Karamustafa, Jumana Manna, Asunción Molinos Gordo and Teresa Solar.

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Kamrooz Aram, Endless Arabesque, 2019

Kamrooz Aram, Endless Arabesque, 2019
Oil, oil crayon, wax pencil and pencil on linen
157.5 x 137 cm

Kamrooz Aram, Endless Arabesque (detail), 2019

Kamrooz Aram, Endless Arabesque (detail), 2019

Kamrooz Aram, Arabesco, 2019

Kamrooz Aram, Arabesco, 2019
Oil, oil crayon, wax pencil and pencil on linen
157.5 x 137 cm 

Kamrooz Aram, Arabesco (detail), 2019

Kamrooz Aram, Arabesco (detail), 2019
 

Kamrooz Aram, Ibn Sina, 2019

Kamrooz Aram, Ibn Sina, 2019
Oil, oil crayon, and pencil on linen
198 x 142.25 cm 

Kamrooz Aram, Ibn Sina (detail), 2019

Kamrooz Aram, Ibn Sina (detail), 2019

Kamrooz Aram, Nocturne 1 (Rising Nocturne), 2019

Kamrooz Aram, Nocturne 1 (Rising Nocturne), 2019
Oil, oil crayon, wax pencil and pencil on canvas
198 x 142.25 cm

Kamrooz Aram, Nocturne 1 (Rising Nocturne) (detail), 2019

Kamrooz Aram, Nocturne 1 (Rising Nocturne) (detail), 2019
Photo by Jeffrey Sturges

Kamrooz Aram, Shadowboxer, 2019

Kamrooz Aram, Shadowboxer, 2019
Oil, oil crayon and wax pencil on linen
157.5 x 137 cm

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