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Walid Raad -Gallery

The exhibition showcases works from Raad’s long-term projects: The Atlas Group (1989-2004) and Scratching on things I could disavow.

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Walid Raad, Postface, Exhibition view, Hamburg 2014

In 2007, Walid Raad initiated an art project on Islamic, modern, and contemporary art in the Arab world titled Scratching on things I could disavow. The artist began this project at the same time as the building of new infrastructures for the arts was accelerating in Arab cities. These developments, when viewed alongside the political, economic, social and military conflicts that consumed the Arab world in the past few decades, shape a rich yet thorny ground for creative work. In Postface, Raad presents works that relate to his ongoing engagement with “Islamic Art,“ and more specifically with works that emerge out of his two year exploration of the Louvre’s newly established Département des Arts de l’Islam, its archives and new exhibition spaces in Paris. This encounter with “Islamic arts” in the Louvre in Paris was also animated by the emergence of a new Louvre in Abu Dhabi.
 

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Walid Raad, Postface, Exhibition view, Hamburg, 2014
 

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Walid Raad, Preface to the fourth edition, 2013, Single channel video projection, 12 minutes 48 seconds, loop
 

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Walid Raad, Preface to the third edition Acknowledgements, 2014, 3D print of Louvre chimera
 

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Walid Raad, Postface II, 2014 Composed of seven elements, Mixed media, 487 x 274 cm
 

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Walid Raad, Postface I, 2014 Composed of nine elements, Mixed media, 487 x 274 cm
 

The Atlas Group (1989-2004) was a project undertaken by Walid Raad to research and document the contemporary history of Lebanon, with particular emphasis on the Lebanese wars of 1975 to 1990. Raad found and produced audio, visual and literary documents that shed light on this history. In Postface, Raad presents two series from this project: "Hostage: The Bachar Polaroids" which deals with the captivity of Westerners in Lebanon in the 1980s, and "We are fair people. We never speak well of one another", which focuses on the assassinations of various Lebanese political figures in the past thirty years.
 

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Walid Raad, Postface, Exhibition view, Hamburg, 2014
 

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The Bachar Polaroids, 2011. Set of 20 plates. Inkjet prints (Archival inks and paper). 20,4 x 20,4 cm, each
 

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We are fair people. We never speak well of one another. 2014. Inkjet prints (Archival inks and paper). 86 x 111,5 cm. 9 prints in series
 

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