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Contemporary Ceramic Art from the Middle East
This display is now closed at V&A South Kensington
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. Museum no. ME.17-2015. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London -
'Double Circle', Ibrahim Said, 2013, Fustat, Egypt. Museum no. ME.6-2013. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London -
Vase from the series 'The Eye Above the Well', Nathalie Khayat, 2015, Beirut, Lebanon. Museum no. ME.7-2019. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London -
Porcelain notebook from the series 'Soul Archive', Halim al-Karim, 1982 – 91, Baghdad, Iraq. Museum no. ME.3:1, 2-2009. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London -
'Chess Federation', from the series 'We owe this considerable land to the horizon line', Shahpour Pouyan, 2017, New York, United States. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London -
Tile panel, Diaa El-Din Daoud, 2018, Fustat, Egypt. Museum no. ME.14-2019. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London -
Panel of five tiles, from the series 'Kashi and Kashan', Abbas Akbari, 2019, Tehran, Iran. Museum no. ME.43-2020. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London -
'Pregnant Spiral', Elif Uras, 2019, Turkey. Museum no. ME.2-2021. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London -
'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. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London -
'Black Sheep/Dead Meat', Malek Gnaoui, 2015, Tunis, Tunisia. Museum no. ME.1-2020. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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Background 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