The V&A and Artwork Jameel’s worldwide award exhibition for up to date artwork and design impressed by Islamic custom is returning to the V&A South Kensington’s Porter Gallery for its seventh version. Open from 30 November 2024 to 16 March 2025, the free London exhibition highlights the wealthy creative heritage of the Islamic Center East and South Asia, showcasing the colourful connection between up to date creativity and the area’s historic legacy. The winner of the Jameel Prize, value £25,000, will likely be introduced on 27 November 2024, and the work of all seven shortlisted artists will likely be on present.
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian, If I had two paths, I’d select a 3rd, 2020, video
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Sadik Kwaish Alfraji, A Thread of Mild Between My Mom’s Fingers and Heaven, 2023, video
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‘Over the past 15 years the Prize has explored numerous responses to Islamic civilisation in lots of media. Over this time, too, the vary of eligible work has expanded and diversified, permitting us to focus on digital media and the transferring picture for this version’
Chair of the Jameel Prize jury and V&A Director, Tristram Hunt
‘Jameel Prize: Shifting Photographs’ takes an in-depth have a look at points regarding water, ecology, panorama and spirituality by the lens of transferring picture and digital media. The shortlisted artists, whose observe spans movie, sculpture, images, set up, sound, efficiency and VR, confront the way in which wherein extractive industries and political dynamics form the environmental and social material of the Center East and South Asia.
Alia Farid, Chibayish, 2022, video
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Jawa El Khash, The Higher Aspect of The Sky at Night time, 2019, WebGL on-line simulation
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Chosen from amongst greater than 300 candidates, the finalists of ‘Jameel Prize: Shifting Photographs’ are Sadik Kwaish Alfraji, Jawa El Khash, Alia Farid, Khandakar Ohida, Zahra Malkani, Marrim Akashi Sani, and Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh & Hesam Rahmanian (as a collective).
Drawing on completely different points of Islamic custom, the artists handle how historical past is written – exploring the creation and iconoclastic deconstruction of monuments alongside new approaches to museums and collections. Many works use hand-drawn animation and images to powerfully convey private testaments to group, resilience, and connection.
Khandakar Ohida, Dream Your Museum, 2022, video
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Marrim Akashi Sani, Jewellery Field, from Muharram sequence, 2023, images
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The ‘Jameel Prize: Shifting Photographs’ exhibition is curated by the V&A’s Jameel Curator of Modern Artwork from the Center East, Rachel Dedman. Following its run on the V&A, it will likely be showcased at Cartwright Corridor in Bradford, the UK’s Metropolis of Tradition in 2025, and can then journey to Jeddah, the place it will likely be displayed on the cutting-edge arts complicated and artistic hub, Hayy Jameel.
‘Jameel Prize: Shifting Photographs’, 30 November 2024 to 16 March 2025, vam.ac.uk
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