Caravan is a term that historically denotes a company of travelers – often merchants, pilgrims or migrants – who venture across desert trade routes for business, cultural or spiritual purposes. Through history, fiction and travel literature has portrayed caravans in the Middle East in a way that straddles fantasy and reality. Artists in this exhibition explore ideas of travel, nostalgia and reconstructing the past in a way that reveals the hazy divide between recorded history and myth.
Hens, Ahmed Askalany, From the collection of: Barjeel Art Foundation
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Gamal Abd El Nasser, Chant Avedissian, From the collection of: Barjeel Art Foundation
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Jala Aidun (Evacuation, We Will Return), Shakir Hassan Al Said, From the collection of: Barjeel Art Foundation
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The Egyptian Writer (Scribe), George Bahgoury, From the collection of: Barjeel Art Foundation
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Apres Gaugin (Evry), George Bahgoury, From the collection of: Barjeel Art Foundation
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Al Sinara, Nazar Yahya, From the collection of: Barjeel Art Foundation
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Oum El Dounia (Mother of the World), Lara Baladi, From the collection of: Barjeel Art Foundation
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Untitled-Trunks, Mohammed-Said Baalbaki, From the collection of: Barjeel Art Foundation
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An Ongoing Tale, Shadi Habib Allah, From the collection of: Barjeel Art Foundation
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Majlis Series (Red Television), Lamia Gargash, From the collection of: Barjeel Art Foundation
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The Arab Boy, Faisal Laibi Sahi, From the collection of: Barjeel Art Foundation
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The Coffee Shop 2, Faisal Laibi Sahi, From the collection of: Barjeel Art Foundation
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Abstract, Figurative, Abstract and Figurative, Hanaa Malallah, From the collection of: Barjeel Art Foundation
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Carthage Story, Halim Karabibene, From the collection of: Barjeel Art Foundation
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Ben Barka, Hassan El Glaoui, From the collection of: Barjeel Art Foundation
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Kadry, Hassan El Glaoui, From the collection of: Barjeel Art Foundation
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Untitled, Diana Al-Hadid, From the collection of: Barjeel Art Foundation
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Arabian Horseman, Sami Mohammed, From the collection of: Barjeel Art Foundation
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Kings Valley, Chant Avedissian, From the collection of: Barjeel Art Foundation
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Donkey and Three Children, Ahmed Askalany, From the collection of: Barjeel Art Foundation
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Credits: Story
Curator: Mandy Merzaban
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