'Empire Dye' by Monira Al Quadiri (Kerber Verlag)
 
 
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'Empire Dye' by Monira Al Quadiri (Kerber Verlag)

 
 
 
Artist © Monira Al Quadiri
PUBLISHER Tomke Braun / Kunstverein Göttingen

POETRY, MYTH, AND THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY – Monira Al Qadiri deals in Empire Dye with the fragmentation of people living in the Arabian world resulting from prosperity, religious beliefs and magical thinking

The young Kuwaiti Monira Al Qadiri (*1983) is one of art’s most important voices in the Gulf region. She poetically combines the social upheavals of the past thirty years, the severe repercussions of the fossil fuel industry, and belief systems with traditional elements from myth and history. In showing us the disruptions between the past and the present through symbols – for instance, glass represents the ghostly remains of desert oil drills...

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