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SUMMARY:الفلق // al-Falaq by Alia Ali
DESCRIPTION:\n\nEXHIBITION GALLERY\n\nالفلق // al-Falaq by Alia Ali i
 s a site-specific multimedia sculpture\n\nA “museum within a museum” i
 n the form of a Yemeni Futurist Starship named الفلق // al-Falaq\, t
 his starship is a manifestation of actively reclaiming looted Yemeni artif
 acts housed in famous collections in Europe and the U.S. It takes on the f
 orm of an octopus sculpture suspended under the AANM dome\, with 81 digita
 l screens along the tentacles\, displaying a range of experimental videos.
  The result is an impressive constellation of multi-channel video installa
 tions that move vertically across the multiple stories of the Museum’s a
 trium. The content of the videos embraces a variety of objects\, ideas and
  heritage that الفلق // al-Falaq takes back from Earth to carry int
 o the galaxy towards the Red Star. This notion comes at a moment in time w
 here Yemen is experiencing its seventh year of war and on Earth where ther
 e are less and less places for Yemenis to move and exist. By investigating
  histories of the distant past\, Ali addresses the realities of the dystop
 ian present in order to carve out spaces for radically imagined possibilit
 ies of the future in what has evolved to be Yemeni Futurism.\n\nAlia Ali w
 as an AANM Artist-in-Residence in 2021-2022\, and Commissioned Artist. The
  Artist + Residents program are funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon F
 oundation.\n\nالفلق // al-Falaq is commissioned by the Arab America
 n National Museum\, with the generous support of the Andrew Mellon Foundat
 ion.\n\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nAlia Ali (Arabic: عاليه علي // Sabean: ‎ |
 ) is an award-winning Yemeni-Bosnian-U.S. multi-media global artist who ha
 s traveled to sixty-seven countries\, lived in and between seven\, and gro
 wn up among five languages. Her practice explores and rescinds accepted cu
 ltural binaries\, challenges culturally sanctioned oppression\, and confro
 nts the dualistic barriers of conflicted notions of gender\, politics\, me
 dia\, and citizenship. Recently her work has been acquired by the British 
 Museum\, Princeton University and the Tucson Museum of Art and her art is 
 held in a number of private collections across the world. In 2020\, Ali wa
 s given a solo exhibition at the prestigious New Orleans Museum of Art ent
 itled FLUX (2019-2021). Recently\, her work has been featured in the Fi
 nancial Times\, Le Monde\, Art Review and Hyperallergic\, and her work
  was presented at ZONAMACO Mexico City in February 2022. www.alia-ali.com
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