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Jananne Al-Ani

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Jananne Al-Ani
Born1966
Kirkuk, Iraq
NationalityIraqi-Irish
EducationByam Shaw School of Art
Royal College of Art
Known forPhotographer, film-maker
WebsiteOfficial Website

Jananne Al-Ani (born 1966) is an Irish-Iraqi artist.

Personal life

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Al-Ani was born in Kirkuk, Iraq in 1966 to an Iraqi father and Irish mother. She studied Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art and graduated with an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art in 1997. She is currently Senior Research Fellow at the University of the Arts London, and lives and works in London.[1]

Career

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Working with photography, film and video, Al-Ani has an ongoing interest in the documentary tradition, through intimate recollections and more official accounts. Her work also engages with the landscape of the Middle East, its archaeology and its visual representation.

Summarising her work in an interview with curator and critic Nat Muller, Al-Ani said: "I have a longstanding interest in the representation of the body. The earliest works I exhibited were concerned with the way women's bodies have been represented throughout the history of western painting. In advance of the development of photography and film, the shifting ideals of feminine beauty were clearly mapped out in the work of artists. However, the media coverage of the 1991 Gulf War, which focused on aerial and satellite images of a depopulated, barren landscape, had a major impact on my work. What followed was a reassessment on my part of the work of Orientalist painters and the way in which fantasies about the body and the landscape of the Middle East were constructed in their works. I began to see the body itself as a contested territory and during the 90s produced a series of works that attempted to counter the European obsession with uncovering and exposing the bodies of veiled women. More recently, with the Aesthetics of Disappearance project, I've attempted to re-occupy that space so, while the presence of the body is implied rather than explicit, the traces of human activity in the landscape are clear to see."[2]

Awards

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  • 1996: John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award.[3]
  • 2000: East International Award.[4]
  • 2011: Abraaj Capital Art Prize.[5]

Exhibitions

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Selected solo exhibitions

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Selected group exhibitions and screenings

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  • Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2006)
  • The Screen-Eye or the New Image: 100 Videos to Rethink the World, Casino Luxembourg (2007)
  • Closer, Beirut Art Center (2009)
  • Women War Artists, Imperial War Museum, London (2011)
  • The Future of a Promise, Magazzini del Sale, 54th Venice Biennale (2011)
  • Topographies de la Guerre, Le Bal, Paris (2011)
  • Arab Express: the Latest Art from the Arab World, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2012)
  • all our relations, the 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012)[11]
  • Before the Deluge, CaixaForum, Barcelona and Madrid (2012-2013)
  • Re:emerge, Towards a New Cultural Cartography, Sharjah Biennial 11 (2013)[12]
  • Mom, Am I Barbarian?, 13th Istanbul Biennial (2013)[13]
  • She Who Tells a Story, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2013)
  • Assembly: A survey of recent artists’ film and video in Britain 2008–2013, Tate Britain, London (2014)
  • Memory Material: Jananne Al-Ani & Stéphanie Saadé, Akinci Gallery Amsterdam (2014)
  • Concrete, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne (2014)
  • My Sister Who Travels, Mosaic Rooms, London (2014)
  • Rituals of Signs and Transitions (1975–1995), Darat al-Funun – The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman, Jordan (2015–16)
  • Traces of War, Inigo Rooms, London (2016)

Exhibitions co-curated by Al-Ani

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  • Fair Play (co-curated with Frances Kearney), Danielle Arnaud gallery, touring to Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham (2001–02)[14]
  • Veil, The New Art Gallery Walsall, touring to Bluecoat Arts Centre and Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool, Modern Art Oxford and Kulturhuset Stockholm (2003–04)

Collections

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Jananne Al-Ani's work is held in the following collections:

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Team, University of Arts London, Web. "Jananne Al-Ani - Staff Research Profiles A-Z - UAL". www.arts.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "Technologies of History: Jananne Al-Ani in conversation with Nat Muller". Ibraaz. 26 June 2014. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  3. ^ "John Kobal Foundation". www.johnkobal.org. Archived from the original on 3 August 2017. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  4. ^ Kuzemczak, Paul. "EASTinternational". www.eastinternational.net. Archived from the original on 10 May 2017. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  5. ^ "Abraaj Group Art Prize". abraajgroupartprize.com. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  6. ^ "Home". Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  7. ^ "Art Now: Jananne Al-Ani: The Visit | Tate". www.tate.org.uk. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  8. ^ "Shadow Sites: Recent Work by Jananne Al-Ani | Exhibitions | Freer and Sackler Galleries". www.asia.si.edu. Archived from the original on 7 October 2017. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  9. ^ ".: Beirut Art Center :". Archived from the original on 29 August 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  10. ^ "Jananne Al-Ani | Southbank Centre". www.southbankcentre.co.uk. Archived from the original on 8 March 2014. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  11. ^ "20th Biennale of Sydney". Archived from the original on 2 April 2017. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  12. ^ Sharjah Art Foundation. "Sharjah Art Foundation". Archived from the original on 29 April 2017. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  13. ^ "13th Istanbul biennial". Archived from the original on 2 May 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  14. ^ "Jananne Al-Ani". www.daniellearnaud.com. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  15. ^ "Jananne Al-Ani | Tate". www.tate.org.uk. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  16. ^ "Aerial IV | Jananne Al-Ani | V&A Search the Collections". collections.vam.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  17. ^ "Shadow Sites I | Arts Council Collection". www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  18. ^ "Jananne Al-Ani". www.centrepompidou.fr. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  19. ^ "Jananne Al Ani in Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection". Archived from the original on 10 May 2017.
  20. ^ "Jananne Al-Ani". www.mumok.at. Archived from the original on 21 March 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  21. ^ "Edge Of Arabia - Contemporary art and creative movements from the Arab World". edgeofarabia.com. Retrieved 5 March 2016.

Lloyd, Fran (1999). Contemporary Arab Women's Art: Dialogues of the present. London: WAL Women's Art Library. ISBN 1860645992.

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Further reading

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  • Home Works. Christine Tohme and Mona Abu Rayyan, Ashkal Alwan, 2003.
  • Jananne Al-Ani. Film and Video Umbrella, 2005.[1]
  • Contemporary British Women Artists: in their own words. Rebecca Fortnum, I.B.Tauris, 2007.
  • Oil and Sugar: Contemporary Art and Islamic Culture. Glenn Lowry, ICC at the ROM, 2009.
  • Footnote to a Project*. Sharmini Pereira, Abraaj Capital Art Prize, 2011.
  • Site-Writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism. Jane Rendell, I.B.Tauris, 2011.
  • In Ramallah, Running. Guy Mannes-Abbott and Samar Martha, Black Dog, 2012.
  1. ^ "Film and Video Umbrella". Retrieved 27 April 2016.
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