Akram Zaatari, 'End of Time' (2012) 16mm film still. Courtesy the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery, London
A new exhibition by the Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari featuring drawing, photography and film. Akram Zaatari has an expansive practice that reflects on the collection, archive and dissemination of images and the role they play in the formation of identities and histories. This sensibility is formed by living through 15 years of war in Lebanon and recording it as a teenager. He has spent much of the past decade collecting and studying the photographic history of the Middle East.
Akram Zaatari, 'The End of Time', installation view, The Common Guild, 2016. Photo: Ruth Clark.
For his first exhibition in Scotland, Zaatari presents a selection of works that reflect his interest in the documentary and its place as a tool in the shaping of history, both personal and collective.
Akram Zaatari is co-founder of the groundbreaking Arab Image Foundation, an artist-driven organisation with a collection of over 600,000 images, established in 1997 to preserve and study photographs from the region. He has made invaluable and uncompromising contributions to the wider discourse on preservation and archival practice and played a critical role in developing the formal, intellectual, and institutional infrastructure of Beirut's contemporary art scene. Zaatari participated in Documenta13 and represented Lebanon at the Venice Biennale 2013.
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‘Akram Zaatari: The End of Time’ Review by Katherine Pahar, this is tomorrow, 2016.
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The End of Time was presented as part of Glasgow International 2016.
Read the Commentary by Chad Elias –
Engagement
A series of workshops developed by ‘In the Shadow of the Hand' (Glasgow-based artists Virginia Hutchison and Sarah Forrest) accompanied the exhibition.
