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

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HOXTON 253 art project space

London
England, United Kingdom

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  • Buses: 243, 242, 67, 394
  • Hoxton Overground / Old Street Underground
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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.

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Sherif Dhaimish

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Hasan Dhaimish

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