Approximately 600 miles (960 kilometers) apart, concurrent installations by the artist Muhannad Shono simultaneously exploit and reveal the tension between the architectural logic of the human built environment and that of the natural landscape.
experience in the Middle East behind the exhibition.
“The region has been controlled from map-making to aerial surveillance, not just in the Sykes-Picot line, but also in the Orientalist image of the Middle East as a vast desert of emptiness, or as a place of ruin and war. The idea of landscape has itself been weaponised.”
These ideas hold together a show that draws on 11 prominent Arab artists, including Larissa Sansour, Wael Shawky,
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme. Muller says she deliberately chose major artists from the region because of the lack of familiarity with Arab contemporary art in museums in the Netherlands
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