Ali Eyal: In the Head's Dusk علي عيّال: في غسق الرأس

Opening party / حفل الافتتاح

Thursday, December 1, 7PM-2AM 

الخميس ١ ديسمبر ٢٠٢٢ من الساعة ٧ مساءً حتى ٢ صباحًا

Curator / ألقيم 
Amin Alsaden امين السادن  

Ali Eyal’s artistic practice contemplates the elusive complexity, and at times nightmarish absurdity, of this world, in which our lives, stories and desires are inexorably entangled. Rooted in childhood memories, his polychromatic fabulations negotiate harrowing events that unfolded in his hometown of Baghdad, particularly following the devastating 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq, one of the most flagrant examples of neo-colonialism in recent history. Lodged deeply into the unconscious—in the head’s dusk, straddling that fertile zone between waking and sleep—his work is ultimately about perseverance, an insistence on bringing to public awareness narratives that have been concealed or suppressed.