The new site-specific installation, whose idea was conceived as a response to the recent war on Gaza, deals with the accumulation of war memories and the emotional and psychological destruction they leave behind.
Buthayna Ali draws images, signs and objects from their proveniences and territories to explore them in other directions than those imposed by cultural conventions. Her process of abstraction aims at the inner strength of a visual rather than pure form or geometry. She subjects images, signs and objects which are part of common and daily life to their semantic implications. Through small modifications and shifts she induces individuality and at the same time multiplies them in series. Via positions and pattern she engenders references, via space and light relations.
In all her art works, she focuses on the contradiction of her milieu; one can strongly sense her desire of getting closer to the society, its states, its concerns and its inconsistencies.
Green Art Gallery presents a new site-specific installation by Buthayna Ali
"I'm Ashamed"
At the Bastakiya Art Fair, from the 15th - 22nd of March 2009, House 126
Opening Reception: 15th of March 2009, 7:30 pm onwards
About Buthayna Ali (b.1974, Syria)
Born in 1974, Buthayna Ali completed her degree in Fine Arts form the University of Damascus and later moved to Paris to study at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSB-A) and the Paris IV Sorbonne University. Since then, she has been working mostly on installation; among the works she produced were "Ayn"(2008) "Examples"(2008), "Marionette"(2007), "We"(2006) and "Promises" (2003), among others.
Buthayna's work has been recently exhibited at the 11th Cairo Biennale (2008), 10th Istanbul Biennale (2007) , Darat Al Funun in Amman and Atassi Gallery in Damascus, among others. Her work can be found in public and private institutional collections across Syria, France, Canada and the US, including the Darat Al Funun in Amman.
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About Bastakiya Art Fair
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Now in its third year, Al BASTAKIYA ART FAIR (BAF) will take place in the houses of Bastakiya, the historic area of Dubai, 15 - 22 March 2009 and from 9am to 8pm daily. BAF 2009 is an independent fringe art fair which focuses international attention on Dubai's art and cultural agenda. BAF 2009 runs parallel to Art Dubai and Sharjah Biennial 09, and in the best tradition of all things fringe, provides a platform for young, innovative and emerging artistic talent. The fair opens up the unique environment of Bastakiya to contemporary art. Involving international, regional and local galleries, artists and curators, the program of events will include a vernissage, daily exhibitions and lectures.
About Green Art Gallery
Green Art Gallery was founded in 1995 and was amongst the first galleries to exhibit Arab art in Dubai. The Gallery became a primary establishment to nurture the city's earliest art collector base by promoting pioneering artists from across the Middle East and North Africa. Leveraging its long and rich history in the market, Green Art Gallery will also begin to represent and showcase contemporary artists from the region. In this manner the Gallery would become one of the few spaces whose knowledge and expertise has spanned the Arab art movement from modernism and will continue to promote the newest tendencies in the regional contemporary art practices.
Green Art Gallery aims to become not only an exhibition space, but also as a supporter and point of reference for the regional trends in modern and contemporary art practices.
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