Of Faces, Tales, and Lands

Guest curated by Reem Aljeally for BetterShared, “Of Faces, Tales, and Lands” is a selection of contemporary artworks by 10 established Sudanese artists. The collection combines portraiture, figuration and landscapes of the artists explorations of Sudanese social structures, traditions, cultural constructions, history and present constraints.

From the questions of identity opposed by Elhassan Elmuontasir and Hazim Alhussain in their abstract portraits to the digital collages of Yasmin Elnour on women in our communities, the traditional and iconic “Karkar” usage for hair that is addressed in the illustrations of Alaa Satir and the imaginative and poetry like compositions of Rayan Elnayal and Mohamed Hamid. The collection aims to showcase a diverse realm for an outsider’s perspective to the current matters illustrated in the Sudanese art scene through the lenses of those 10 artists.

The catalogue also includes three articles as follows:

• Parallel Existence of Times in Visual Arts of Sudan, By Rahiem Shadad
• On Sudanese fine art and the absence of reception, by Mohamed Morada, Edited by Mozafar Ramadan, Translated from Arabic by Reem Aljeally
• The current state of visual arts in Sudan and its conceptual trends, by Mozafar Ramadan, Translated from Arabic by Reem Aljeally