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A Magic Realist Afrabia

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Thursday, 5th September 2019 | 18:00 - 20:00

 

‘A Magic Realist Afrabia,’ is a series of digital prints exploring ideas on multicultural identities, hybridity, and the third space. Looking at Sudanese author Tayeb Salih’s ‘Season of Migration to the North’ for inspiration, Elnayal follows main character Mustafa’s journey from Sudan to London and his struggle with his contradicting, convoluted and evolving ethnic identity in her work. Elnayal researches and translates magic realist techniques extracted from literature, art and photography into design techniques, and combines it with information obtained from the photographic essay on the Sudanese aesthetic to build a hybrid, urban, magic realist Afrabia.

 

 


 

In partnership with Amal (a Saïd Foundation programme) and supported by P&A and the Arab British Centre

                                

 





Church Street | 2019 | Silk print on foamboard | 42 x 59.4 cm
Church Street | 2019 | Silk print on foamboard | 42 x 59.4 cm
Gardens of Afrabia | 2019 | Digital Print | 135.7 x 89.8 cm
Gardens of Afrabia | 2019 | Digital Print | 135.7 x 89.8 cm
Gate to Afrabia | 2019 | Digital Print | 118.9 x 84.1 cm
Gate to Afrabia | 2019 | Digital Print | 118.9 x 84.1 cm
Jebena Café | 2019 | Silk Print on foamboard | 42 x 29.7 cm
Jebena Café | 2019 | Silk Print on foamboard | 42 x 29.7 cm
Mustafa’s den of lethal lies | 2019 | Silk print on foamboard | 42 x 29.7 cm
Mustafa’s den of lethal lies | 2019 | Silk print on foamboard | 42 x 29.7 cm
Mustafa’s private room | 2019 | Silk Print on foamboard | 42 x 29.7 cm
Mustafa’s private room | 2019 | Silk Print on foamboard | 42 x 29.7 cm