Zakaria Ramhani “May Allah Forgive Me, Vol.1 and 2”

Julie Meneret Contemporary Art

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Zakaria Ramhani is a Moroccan artist whose large-scale paintings use Arabic calligraphy as a formal gesture. Inspired by recent political activism in Egypt and the Middle East, Ramhani has caused controversy by daring to critique the interstices of violence and religion. Yet his paintings are also deeply personal—as will be reflected in Volume 2—meditating on the ways that language impacts configurations of identity. May Allah Forgive Me refers to a feeling of guilt that haunts both the artist and his paintings.

Authorities at Art Dubai censored Ramhani’s You Were My Only Love (2012) for its representation of police brutality in Tahrir Square, although the artist has been favorably received at numerous exhibitions and art fairs including The Barbican Centre London, Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, The British Museum at the DIFC Dubai, and The Cairo Biennial.

Over the course of this exhibition, Ramhani will continue his controversial work, exploring the contradictions of Islamic figuration. He moves between modes of inquiry into the institutional violence of a shared linguistic code, and into the impossibility of representing one’s cohesive self under these fraught conditions.

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from November 06, 2013 to December 22, 2013

Opening Reception on 2013-12-04 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Zakaria Ramhani

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