EPHEMERAL LANDSCAPES OF THE SUN: CASA ÁRABE
NUR 2024 EDITION IN COLLABORATION WITH PHOTOESPAÑA
ROGER ANIS, M’HAMMED KILITO, SALIH BASHEER, IMANE DJAMIL, EBTI NABAG, YUMNA AL ARASHI, TANYA HABJOUQA, ABDALLAH AL KHATIB, LEILA CHAÏBI
CURATED BY ANALÍA IGLESIAS AND IRENE DÍAZ
Abdallah Al Khatib, Stills from Little Palestine
Installation view by Laura M. Lombardía. Images Courtesy of Casa Árabe
Ephemeral Landscapes of the Sun is the title of the collective show of the 2024 edition of the NUR open call, organized by Casa Árabe and PhotoEspaña. The exhibition revolves around a group of artists from the MENA region born in the 1980s and 1990s: Roger Anis, M’hammed Kilito, Salih Basheer, Imane Djamil, Ebti Nabag, Yumna Al Arashi, Tanya Habjouqa, Abdallah Al Khatib, and Leila Chaïbi.
In their photographs and audiovisual proposals, these artists explore perpetual movement from perspectives that form the backbone of the exhibition’s chapters.
Fleeing Nature starts the tour, representing the iconic existence of the Nile River and the Maghreb oases, both currently under threat.
Exodus evokes the hasty escapes caused by orphanhood and war (and persecution in Sudan), or the incessant departure of migrants from the African coast to the Canary Islands.
Life in Circles shows us the women who make a living with street stalls (like the tea ladies in Khartoum) or the citizens of a Palestinian refugee camp besieged by external conflicts who can find no way out.
Finally, Mutations is a section that approaches the ways in which the tangible meets the ancestral, poetic and mystical worlds. A transformation which may enable abandoning our fears, relaxing questions of gender and identity and, ultimately, trusting in joy and in life.
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