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Artists
in Dialog: Al Fadhil & Aissa Deebi Round table discussion Al Tahrir: The Day After, 1 May, 2011, 3PM |
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Fadhil, Saddam Hussein with the Artist's Father, March, 26 1983,
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Art Laboratory Berlin is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition project Artists in Dialog: My Dreams Have Destroyed My Life. Some Thoughts on Pain on 28 April. The exhibition, the third in our ongoing series Artists in Dialog, is a discoursive dialog between the Iraqi Swiss artist Al Fadhil and the Palestinian-American artist Aissa Deebi, and explores the complex ties between the personal and the political in the theme of loss. My Dreams Have Destroyed My Life. Some Thoughts on Pain was first conceived by the artists during a common artist residency in Taiwan. Both artists had lost brothers in respective conflicts in their countries of origin. Al Fadhil has lost two brothers to the wars in Iraq. One brother died in the Iran-Iraq war. Fadhil's father, as the parent of a 'martyr,' were granted an audience with the dictator Saddam Hussein, which was documented with a photograph. Fadhil's
younger brother Ahmed was killed during the civil war that followed
the American invasion of Iraq. After his death, Fadhil was contacted
by Jason Sagebiel, an American soldier who had known Ahmed. Sagebiel
is also a musician, who learned to play the traditional Arabic Oud
during his stay in the city of Kut, Iraq, and composed a a musical
homage. Fadhil will include a series of documentations, the photographs
of his father with Saddam Hussein, Sagebiel's song, photographs
of the family home by his younger brother Ahmed in the exhibition. The
exhibition, a dialog of remembrance, focuses on both the artists'
personal experience of loss and the cultural aspects of mourning
and grief: Fadhil comes from a Shiite Iraqi family, whilst Deebi
is Greek Orthodox. Yet all three deaths have taken place within
the political and historical context of conflict. On
May 1, 2011 at 3PM there will be a round table discussion on the
cultural and political changes taking place in the Middle East in
the wake of the current wave of protests. Aissa Deebi,
who teaches at the American University in Cairo and Al Fadhil
will be joined by Munira Khayyat (an anthropologist and PhD
candidate at Columbia University, New York) and Heiko Wimmen
(a political scientist and fellow at the German Institute for International
and Security Affairs in Berlin). (More
on the roundtable) Article in Al Akhbar, Beirut - 2011-7-5 Sturm und Drang: En Futuro -2011-7-9
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