Abstraction, Identity and Curation in Arab Art | Suheyla Takesh
We had a conversation with Suheyla Takesh about her work at the Barjeel Art Foundation, and about the recent exhibition she co-curated "Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s."
Suheyla Takesh is a curator and writer at the Barjeel Art Foundation, she works on research and curatorial development of exhibitions, and oversees the production of publications. She is the co-curator of Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s (2020) at the Grey Art Gallery in New York, which is set to travel to several venues in the US. Taking Shape explores how twentieth-century abstraction developed and played out across the Arab world. Including artists working in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates, this collection reveals the truly global reach of abstract art.
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