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It simmers in the biennial’s showstopper: Hamra Abbas’s riveting “Kaaba Pictures” series. Archival pigment prints of photographs, they look like paintings — cartoony geometries with architectural and ornamental flourishes.
They depict the Kaaba, the black granite cube of a building, destination point of the pilgrimage to Mecca, said to be built by the Prophet Abraham. Abbas, a Pakistani artist who now lives in Cambridge, photographs souvenirs picturing the Kaaba, cards and prayer rugs that people have brought home. She then paints tiny miniatures of the photographs, and photographs those paintings. The enlarged prints are on view.
Their bloated dapple of blown-up brush strokes and the steamy yellows, reds, and blues feels hallucinatory. Each has the cube at its center, a sacred Islamic site and a reflexively modernist form in a Western art museum, accented by bold Islamic patterning, towers and hints of landscape. Here is faith on display, but also its commercialization. Abbas app
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Civitella Ranieri Group 3, 2019
August 8th – September 17th, 2019 Fellows and Director’s Guests:
Hamra Abbas, Fellow, (Visual Arts, Kuwait/Pakistan)
Hamra Abbas’s artistic practice draws from a myriad of sources and takes on a diversity of forms and media. Her investigative approach produces a diverse and holistic body of work addressing notions of cultural history, sexuality, violence, ornamentation, devotion and faith. She is the recipient of the Jury prize at Sharjah Biennial 9 I 2009, the Abraaj Capital Art Prize in 2011 and was shortlisted for the Jameel Prize in 2009. Her most recent exhibitions have been at Lahore Art Gallery, Pakistan, 2018; Canvas gallery, Karachi, Pakistan, 2017; Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai, UAE, 2016; and at PILOT, Istanbul, Turkey, 2015.
Kurt Andersen, Director’s Guest, (Writing, USA)
Kurt Andersen is the author of many critically acclaimed bestselling books, including four novels and, most recently, Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500