Exhibition
Resistance, Rebellion, Revolution: Hasan 'Alsatoor' Dhaimish - A Libyan Artist in Exile
17 Aug 2021 – 30 Aug 2021
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- 253 Hoxton Street
- London
England - N1 5LG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses: 243, 242, 67, 394
- Hoxton Overground / Old Street Underground
Resistance, Rebellion & Revolution is a project on the life and works of the late Libyan artist and satirist, Hasan ‘Alsatoor’ Dhaimish (1955-2016).
About
Coinciding with the ten-year anniversary of the Libyan revolution, an exhibition at London’s Hoxton 253 offers a ruminative reflection on the artist’s life in exile in the UK, while a new online archive (alsatoor.com) of Hasan’s work presents over 5,000 pieces of anti-Gaddafi regime satire he produced over his long, illustrious career.
Hasan’s real creative flare took place in a parallel universe to that of politics. His inspiration was shaped by his musical taste – his days as a kid in Benghazi recording soul on his reel-to-reel, to the days of listening to reggae and dub through West Yorkshire’s earth-shattering soundsystems, onto hiphop until he discovered jazz and the Delta blues. Through a series of canvases, prints and an hypnagogic avante-garde video, this exhibition entwines art and exile, and studies how Hasan expressed himself away from the political realm.
Co-curated by his daughter Hanna, this unique and colourful show brings Hasan’s work to London for the first time.
In the project room, a biographical video will be played on request. The piece has been put together by. award-winning video editor, Jake Mobbs, and features a voice over by the artist’s son, Sherif Dhaimish.
As part of the project, in August 2021 a limited-edition book will be published by Pendle Press about the artist – A Libyan Artist in Exile: Hasan ‘Alsatoor’ Dhaimish (1955-2016) by Sherif Dhaimish.
This project has been supported by Pendle Press and Arts Council England.