Subversion

About

A unique group show of new and recent contemporary art that explores and rethinks modern Arab identity. Subversion features work from eleven emerging and established artists who use autobiographical narratives amalgamated with fiction, popular culture and subversive parody to reveal contrasts of existence in a disputed political region. Rather than conforming, they approach the various social masks they are expected to wear with a sense of humour — making reference to the duplicitous performances of their everyday lives. Spanning an array of techniques including installation, video, photography and sculpture, the work illustrates fragments of the distorted imagination that often preoccupies the Arab world. curated by Omar Kholeif