Truth Is Black / Examining Arab Art Today – 30th Anniversary PublicationVol. 1: Truth Is Black, Write Over It With a Mirage’s LightVol. 2: Knowledge Production: Examining Arab Art Today

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Vol. 1: Truth Is Black, Write Over It With a Mirage’s Light

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the launch of its initiative in support of contemporary Arab artists, Darat al Funun – The Khalid Shoman Foundation invited artists to pause and reflect, to re-imagine our world, and to reinvent their narrative following the challenge set by Mahmoud Darwish: ‘Truth is black, write over it with a mirage’s light’. Volume 1 documents the exhibitions and events held over 2018. It presents different encounters between artists of our time and their place in the world today, together forming a constellation of new narratives and interrogations.

Participating artists: Akram Zaatari (Lebanon), Amal Kenawy (Egypt), Hassan Khan (Egypt), Haya Abdul Hameed (Jordan), Himat Ali (Iraq), Isidro López-Aparicio (Spain), Jehad Al Ameri (Jordan), Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige (Lebanon), Marwan Rechmaoui (Lebanon), Oraib Toukan (Jordan), Rabih Mroué (Lebanon), Sahel Al Hiyari (Jordan), Ala’ Younis (Jordan), Ammar Khammash (Jordan), Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme (Palestine), Hani Alqam (Jordan), Jalal Toufic (Iraq) and Graziella Rizkallah Toufic (Lebanon), Jananne Al-Ani (Iraq/UK), Salah Saouli (Lebanon), Samia Zaru (Jordan), Raed Ibrahim (Jordan), Rayyane Tabet (Lebanon), Yazan Khalili (Palestine), Fouad ElKhoury (Lebanon), Khaled Hourani (Palestine), and Walid Raad (Lebanon). Adel Abidin (Iraq), Ahlam Shibli (Palestine), Ahmad Salameh (Jordan), Ammar Khammash (Jordan), Hrair Sarkissian (Syria), James Webb (South Africa), Khalil Rabah (Palestine), Sima Zureikat (Jordan/US), Studio 8 (Jordan), Yousef Kawar (Jordan), and Will Iskandar (Jordan/UAE).

Vol. 2: Knowledge Production: Examining Arab Art Today

In the summer of 2018, a public colloquium brought together recipients of the Darat al Funun Dissertation Fellowship for Modern and Contemporary Arab Art (est. 2011) in Amman for the first time to examine the ways in which knowledge about Arab art is generated and disseminated. Volume 2 documents the findings of the colloquium. It presents a new generation of scholars who are expanding knowledge about Arab art, challenging previous paradigms, and calling for a reassessment of conventional narratives about the region.
Essays by: Edward (Ted) McDonald-Toone, Elizabeth Rauh, Fares Chalabi, Holiday Powers, and Nisa Ari. Commentary by Silvia Naef.

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