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The Wandering of Dreams, Co-curated with Larissa Furhman
A group exhibition on the (im)possibility of dreaming at Melike Bilir Gallery, Hamburg, Germany, Co-curated by Larissa Furhman and Reem Aljeally, With works by Yasmeen Abdullah, Reem Aljeally, Dar Al Naim, Amna Elhassan, Zainab Gaafar, Aya Sinada, Enas Suliman & Studio Urban. February 2024 Exhibition text: To dream while in peace entails different prospects than…
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OMAR ZAKI – AN INTROSPECTIVE
In this exhibition, Zaki has dedicated the time to polishing his craft by methodically constructing duplicates of a number of those early artworks from a variety of materials, a practice passed down to him by his father who learned it in Omar’s hometown, Pietrasanta in Italy. His sculpture “Tha’er”, stands shiny in bronze, while its…
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Hidden faces – Exhibition review
The gloomy black and white dots and lines contrast the vivid, rich blue that is the walls of the French Institute’s new exhibition walls. The art of Mohamed Abdalrasoul is intense in terms of its emotions, compositions, and most certainly his unique technique. The artist works in a style of different hatchings to formulate the…
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Identity of Soul – Exhibition review
For decades, Sudanese artists have been questioning the notion of identity. Whether in personal scopes or in larger contexts relating to society and the country as a whole. Whether through the explorations of the artists behind the Khartoum School, or the generations following them who took upon dismantling what we mean when we say the…
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Bold, Colourful, and Childlike? The Unconsciousness by Hani Khalil
September 2022 With a dive into the personal explorations of the mind, artist Hani Khalil unveils his “Unconsciousness” and what he deems a definition of himself, ideas, and reality. In the gallery hall of The French Institute in Khartoum, Sudan, Khalil surprised the audience with bold artworks soaking in unmissable strokes of red and black,…
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Vision board / Mindset, by Elhassan Elmuontasir
Personal perspective is what sets the difference between humans and how they see things. Elhassan, through his perspective, is approaching the political scene through the lens of the streets and combines that with his observations of how people consume and digest information and news; whether passed through or portrayed in traditional and digital media, and…
