ARA-B-LESS?

Wednesday 4th November 2015

Saatchi Gallery

Duke Of York's HQ,

King's Rd, London SW3 4RY
www.saatchigallery.com

ARA-B-LESS? is a collaborative art project by Riffy Ahmed and Sarah El Hamed. They are presenting a visual conversation started between them in the form of an interactive art exhibition exploring the landscape and forms in which identity, perspectives and representation of Arab women and diaspora narratives are represented in both reality and fictional sense (i.e. cinema, popular culture and art) and the middle space that occurs with the collision of these two worlds. This space is the epicentre of where their fascination begins.

Presenting their work with 12 selected emerging artists they have designed 3 landscapes of thought processes with interactive performance and installation art, which the audience can navigate and explore through the grand Saatchi Gallery space.

Artists involved include Riffy Ahmed, Sarah El Hamed, Wejdan Reda, Dictaphone Group, Shadi Alzaqzouq, Ymène Chetouane, Rim Battal, Mourad Krinah, Mohssin Harraki, Meriem Bennani and Hassan Hajjaj with a surprise music guest.

(Specular Collective produced this project in partnership with Nu-mi-die, commissioned by the Nour Arts Festival 2015)

www.ara-b-less.co

www.rbkc.gov.uk/subsites/nour.aspx

THE ARTISTS (Double Click tabs for full screen)

THE COLLABORATORS ARTIST + CURATORS RIFFY AHMED & SARAH EL HAMED	RIFFY AHMED Visual Artist + Film Director (British Bahrain / Bangladesh)	SHADI ALZAQZOUQ Visual Artist (Palestine)
WEJDAN REDA Artist + Curator (Saudi Arabia)	RIM BATTEL Visual Artist (French Algerian)	MOURAD KRINAH Graphic Artist (Algerian)
MERIEM BENNANI Morocco	SARAH EL HAMED Performance Artist (French Algerian)	MOHSSIN HARRAKI Visual Artist (Morocco)
HASSAN HAJJAJ Photographer + Artist (Morocco)	YMENE CHETOUANE Ceramic Artist (Tunisia)	DICTAPHONE GROUP Performance art and research (Lebanon)
LABESS (MUSICIAN) Algeria