Past event
Contemporary Ceramic Art from the Middle East
This display brings together for the first time contemporary artists from the Middle East and North Africa who work primarily in clay. The richness and inventiveness of their output reflects the vitality of current ceramic practice across the region.
Display highlights
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''Nu' Shabtis: Liberation', Zahed Taj-Eddin, 2014, London, England -
'Double Circle', Ibrahim Said, 2013, Fustat, Egypt -
Vase from the series 'The Eye Above the Well', Nathalie Khayat, 2015, Beirut, Lebanon -
Porcelain notebook from the series 'Soul Archive', Halim al-Karim, 1982 – 91, Baghdad, Iraq -
'Chess Federation', from the series 'We owe this considerable land to the horizon line', Shahpour Pouyan, 2017, New York, United States -
Tile panel, Diaa El-Din Daoud, 2018, Fustat, Egypt -
Panel of five tiles, from the series 'Kashi and Kashan', Abbas Akbari, 2019, Tehran, Iran -
'Pregnant Spiral', Elif Uras, 2019, Turkey -
'Untitled 33' (left), 'Untitled 44' (right), from the series 'Architecture of Shadow, Orations of Light', Khaled Ben Slimane, 2018, Tunis, Tunisia. Museum nos. ME.51-2020 and ME.52-2020 -
'Black Sheep/Dead Meat', Malek Gnaoui, 2015, Tunis, Tunisia
Contemporary Ceramic Art from the Middle East
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Header image:
Panel of five tiles, from the series ‘Kashi and Kashan’, Abbas Akbari, 2019, Tehran, Iran. Museum nos. ME.43 to 47-2020 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London