HISTORIES OF NOW
Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery
+ Mrs. E. Ross Anderson Auditorium
230 The Fenway - Boston
18/1/2012 - 17/3/2012
Opening during the one year anniversary of the first mass protests in Tahrir Square, "Histories of Now: Six Artists from Cairo" brings together work by some of the most inspiring and influential video and new media artists working in Egypt today, including a multi-channel video installation by the late Ahmed Basiony featured in the Egyptian Pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennale.
This exhibition is an intimate investigation of the complex social framework and collective formal engagements currently being explored by Egyptian artists. With many of these artists exhibiting in the northeast region of the United States for the first time, "Histories of Now" introduces viewers to the diversity of voices, concerns and approaches—both material and conceptual—found in today's Cairo; six artists presenting six contrasting visions, united only by context, creative discipline and geographic proximity.
Artists: Mohamed Abla, Ahmed Basiony, Hala Elkoussy, Shady El Noshokaty, Sabah Naim, Moataz Nasr
Among the works on view in the exhibition is 30 Days of Running in the Place (2011), a three-channel video installation by Egyptian-born Ahmed Basiony (1978–2011), who was killed in the violent uprising in Tahrir Square in January 2011.
