Interventions Catalogue English/Arabic version

Interventions: A Dialogue Between the Modern and the Contemporary honours and celebrates the careers of five pivotal artists: Dia Azzawi, Farid Belkahia, Ahmed Nawar, Ibrahim el-Salahi, and Hassan Sharif. This book showcases their individual contributions to forging and promoting modern art, enriching the history of aesthetics in their respective countries, and their collective voice in articulating the diverse understandings of what we call Arab modernism today. Through a selection of their works from Mathaf’s collection, a number of intersecting and dominating themes are highlighted and culminate in new works commissioned by Mathaf.