Exhibition
Barjeel Art Foundation Collection: Imperfect Chronology – Mapping the Contemporary I
26 Apr 2016 – 14 Aug 2016
Regular hours
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 21:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Address
- 77-82 Whitechapel High Street
- London
- e1 7qx
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bus: 25, 205, 254
- Aldgate East / Aldgate
- Liverpool Street
In the third presentation, photography and video works made between 1990 – 98 go on display.
About
Highlights include Moroccan artist Yto Barrada’s photograph Rue la Liberté (2000) of two men embracing with their backs to the camera. The image is part of Barrada’s wider series ‘The Strait Project’ (1998-2004) which documented individuals waiting to escape to Europe across the Strait of Gibraltar over a decade.
Photographs from Lebanese artist duo Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige’s series ‘Faces’ (2009) are also on show. Since the civil wars in Lebanon began, portraits of men who have died fighting for a political or religious cause cover walls across the city. Hadjithomas and Joreige documented some of these posters that have been distorted over time and the process of redrawing some of the faded faces, exploring issues around image circulation, availability and marking moments in history.
