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Catalogue Design Yusef Alahmad Yusefalahmad.Com SAUDI CONTEMPORARY ART IN DEARBORN, MI الفــــــن السعـــودي المعاصـــــر في مدينـــة ديربــورن Organizer Museum partner Epicenter X Exhibition _ Dates Opening: Saturday, July 8, 2017 Community Program: Sunday, July 9, 2017 Exhibition: July 8–October 1, 2017 _ Curator Devon Akmon _ Museum partner Arab American National Museum 13624 Michigan Ave., Dearborn, MI 48126 arabamericanmuseum.org _ Organiser King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture Ring Rd, Gharb Al Dhahran, Dhahran 34461, Saudi Arabia kingabdulazizcenter.com _ Producer Culturunners Director: Stephen Stapleton culturunners.com _ Catalogue design Yusef Alahmad yusefalahmad.com Cover art Yusef Alahmad & Josh Higgins 10 72 76 Curatorial Statement Safia Ahmed Masameer _ _ _ مساميــــــــر صفيــة أحمـــد كلمــــة قيــــم المعـــرض 14 78 Saudi Artists’ Tour Salehah Yahya Alalmaiy Telfaz 11 _ _ _ تلفـــاز ١١ صالحــــه يحــــيى العلـــــمي جولة الفنانين السعوديين 16 82 King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture Amira Al–Almai Acknowledgements المحـتـــــوى CONTENTS _ _ _ شكـــــــــر و تقديـــــــــر أميــــرة العلمــــــي مركــــــز المــلك عبـدالعزيــز الثقافــي العالـــــمي 18 Arab American National Museum Nala Ali _ _ نـاال علــي المتحـــــــف العـــــــــربي االمريكـــــــــي Salha Mohammed Al–Qahtani _ صالحــــــة محمــــــد القحطانـــــــي 24 Qamar Abdulmalik Salehah Abdulzeaz Alraqde _ _ صالحــــــة عبدالعزيـــــز الرقــدي قمـــــــر عبدالمـــــالك 26 Yusef Alahmad & Josh Higgins Zaina Al–Shahrani _ _ زينـــــــة الشهرانـــــــي يوســف األحمــد و جــوش هيچيــــنز 28 Musaed Al Hulis Jamelah Ali Alsoghayer _ THE ANNEX MURAL ARTISTS _ جميـــــــلة علــــي الصغـــــير مســاعد الحليــــس 32 Marwah Al Mugait Arwa Mohammed Alzehr _ _ أروى محمــــــــــد الزهـــــــــر مــــــــروة المقيـــــــط 34 Arwa Al Neami Halimah Moshabab Assiry _ _ حليمــــــة مشبــب العسيـــــري أروى النعيمـــــــي 36 Ahmad Angawi Sharifa Ayed _ _ شريفــة عايـض أحمــــــد عنقاوي 40 Amr Alngmah Fawzeiyah Mohammed Barzyq _ _ فوزيـــــــة محمـــــــــد بارزيـــــــــــق عمــــرو النجمـــة 42 MAIN EXHIBITION ARTISTS Abdullah Al Othman Fatimah Hassan _ _ فاطمـــــة ّحســــان عبـــدهللا العثمــــــــــان 46 Nasser Al Salem Sharifah Mohammed Mahdi _ _ شريفـــــــــة محمــــــــد مهــدي ناصـــــــر السالــــــم 48 Ayman Yossri Daydban Jameelah Mater _ _ جميلــــــة ماطـــــــر أيمـــن يوســــري ديدبــــان 54 Abdulnasser Gharem Reem Mater _ _ ريــــم ماطــــــر عبـدالناصـــــــر غـــــــــارم 56 Ajlan Gharem Nawarah Abdolrahman Moghawi _ _ نــــــــوارة عبـــــدالرحمــــن مغـــــــاوي عجــــالن غــــارم 58 Fatimah Hassan Ohud Ebraheam Moghawi _ _ عهــــــــود إبراهيــــم مغـــاوي فاطمــــة ّحســـــان 60 Ahmed Mater Fatima Yahya _ _ فاطمـــة يحيــى أحمــــد ماطــــر 64 Mawadah Muhtasib Fatemah Faya Yaqub _ _ فاطمـــة فايـــع يعقــوب مــــــودة محتســـــــب 66 Nugamshi Zohrah Faya Yaqub _ الجداريـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــة فنانيـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــن _ زهــــرة فايــع يعقــوب نغيمشــــــي 68 Shaweesh _ شاويـــــــش الرئيســــــــــــــــي المعــــــــــــرض فنانيـــــــــــــــــن المعــــــــــــرض الرئيســــــــــــــــي تعتبـــر المملكة العربية السعودية ومدينة ديربورن في والية ميشيغـان بمثابة مقرين Dearborn, Michigan and Saudi Arabia serve as iconic social and اجتماعيين وثقافيين رمزيين، فهما محوران جغرافيان ذوا ٍاعتبار ٍثقافي ٍوسياسي لهما cultural epicenters. Both are geographic hubs of cultural and political تأثير قوي على الممارسات االجتماعيـة والعادات اإلقليميـة وأشكال التعبيـر. significance, and have strong influences both near and far over social تعتبر مدينة ديربورن نقطة محورية في "أمريكا العربية" حيث تحتضن مجموعة .practices, regional customs, and expressive forms كبيرة من المؤسسات الدينية والثقافي والسياسية والمجتمعية الهامة. تتمركز المدينة Dearborn, often considered the focal point of “Arab America,” is ً فيجغرافيا المنطقة ذات التركيز األعلى من األمريكيين العرب في الواليات المتحدة، home to a vast array of important religious, cultural, political and إذ جذبت الموجة تلو األخرى من المهاجرين العرب منذ ما يقرب من قرن. اآلن، يسافر community institutions. The city, geographically positioned within a العرب وغير العرب على حد سواء إلى ديربورن لتجربة حيوية الثقافية العربية األمريكية region containing our nation’s highest concentration of Arab فمن هذا المركز تنبعث األفكار الثقافية إلى المجتمعات العربية األمريكية األخرى حـول Americans, has drawn waves upon waves of Arab immigrants for الواليـات المتحـدة. nearly a century. Today, both Arabs and non–Arabs alike journey to المملكـة العربيـة السعوديـة هي ثاني أكبر ٍدولة في العالم العربـي مساحة وهي .Dearborn to experience the vibrancy of Arab American culture بمثابة مركز ذو تأثير كبير على الهوية الثقافية والتطور اإلجتماعي في العالم العربي. What’s more, it is from this epicenter that ideas and culture emanate المعــــــرض كلمـــــــة قيـــــم المعــــــرض تضم المملكة الحرمين المكـي والمدني وهما أهم األماكن المقدسة في اإلسالم حيث .CURATORIAL STATEMENT CURATORIAL to other Arab American communities throughout our nation يشكل الموقع الجغرافي للمملكة مفترق ٍطرق للثقافة وال سيما أثناء الحج إلى مكة The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the second largest state in the Arab كل عام. ومنذ العام ١933 حينما وطدت الواليات المتحـدة عالقاتها الدبلوماسية مع ,world, also serves as a highly influential epicenter of Arab identity المملـكة الموحدة ًحديثا آنذاك على يد الملك عبدالعزيز بن عبدالرحمن آل سعـود، culture, and social development. Home to the two holiest sites of تطورت العالقات االقتصادية والجيوسياسية بتسارع مستمر. وعلى رغم العالقة الوطيدة Islam, Saudi Arabia functions at a crossroads of culture, most notably بين المملكة والواليـات المتحدة، إال أنه ال ُيعرف عن ثقافـة المملكة إال القليل في during the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Since 1933, when the United األوسـاط األمريكيـة. States began diplomatic relations with the newly unified country ابسنتـر اكس هو أول معرض للفن السعودي المعاصر في ميشيغان يهـدف founded by King Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud (Ibn Saud), the للتعريف بالثقافة السعـودية المعاصرة من خالل تعزيز الحوار الثقافي البناء بين الفنانين two nations have been bound by increasingly complex economic and السعوديين والجمهور األمريكي. يأتي هذا المعرض في الوقت المناسب ليبرز أعمال geopolitical relationships. However, despite its position as an ally of الفنانين المحترفيـن والصاعديـن على حد سواء عبر وسائط متعددة ويسلط الضوء على .the United States, little is known about Saudi culture and its citizens Epicenter X, التنوع الكبير في ممارسة الفن المعاصر في المملكة العربية السعودية. the first major exhibition of contemporary Saudi art تتجاوز األعمال الفنيـة المقدمة في هذا المعرض األبعاد السياسيـة لدى وسائـل in Michigan, seeks to explore contemporary Saudi culture by اإلعالم والمسؤولين الحكوميين لتفتح األبواب على حياة الشعب السعودي. وفي promoting meaningful cultural dialogue between Saudi artists and هذا السياق نأمل أن يتجاوز هذا المعرض وجهـات النظر الشائعة والقوالب النمطية U.S. audiences. This timely exhibition, which features both established عن الثقافة العربية من خالل منح الفنانين منصة لعرض أفكار مؤثرة تركز على التحضـر and emerging artists working in a variety of media, sheds light on والعولمة والدين وتأثير الثقافة الشعبية األمريكية على المجتمع السعودي. .the vast diversity of contemporary artistic practice in Saudi Arabia يعد هذا المعرض استمرارا ًاللتزام المتحـف العربي األمريكي ببناء المجتمع من خالل Cutting through the political discourse of media outlets and الفنون. فمنذ تأسيسه عام 2005م عمل المتحـف العـربي األمـريكي على رعاية بيئة government officials, the artworks featured in this exhibition open آمنة رحبة للتواصل وتبادل األفـكار واستكشاف الثقافة بأساليب عملية. ابسنتـر اكس doors to the lives of the Saudi people. In doing so, it is our hope this هو جسر ثقافي بين المجتمعات عبر التنوع العربـي. exhibit will challenge common views and stereotypes of Arab َنظم المتحـف العربـي األمريكـي هذا المعرض بالتعاون مع مركـز المـلك عبدالعزيـز culture by lending a voice to artists exploring poignant ideas centered الثقافي العالمي (إثراء) وتم انتاجه بدعم من كولتورونرز. on urbanization, globalization, religion and the impact of American ــ .popular culture in Saudi society ديفون أكمون This exhibition is a continuation of the Arab American National مدير المتحف العربي األمريكي والمنسق لمعرض ابسنتـر اكس .Museum’s commitment to building community through the arts Since its inception in 2005, the Arab American National Museum has worked to foster a safe, welcoming environment in which to connect, Epicenter exchange ideas and explore culture in meaningful ways. X serves as an important cultural bridge between communities and across the Arab diaspora. This exhibition was organized by the Arab American National Museum in collaboration with the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, simply known as Ithra, and is produced with support from CULTURUNNERS. _ Devon Akmon Epicenter X Director, Arab American National Museum and Curator, 10 12 انطلقت مجموعة من الفنانين السعوديين ًابتداء من يونيـو Since its launch in June 2016, a group of Saudi 20١6 في جولة شملت عدة مدن بالواليات المتحدة تهدف artists has been embarking on a multi–city tour of للتبادل الحضاري، وتأسيس قنوات تواصل بين الثقافات، the United States to generate people–to–people وقـد بدأت الجـولة بوالية تكسـاس في معرض ضخم داخل dialogue and better understanding between the متحف "ستيشن للفن المعاصر"، قبل االنتقال إلى معرض .two nations "جونـزو" في مدينة أسبـن في والية كولـورادو، ومن ثم إلى The tour began in Texas with a large scale "مشـروع شـارع مينيسـوتا" في سان فرانسيسـكو والية exhibition at the Station Museum of Contemporary كاليفورنيا، و "متحف كلية بيتس للفنون" في لويستون والية Art in Houston before traveling to the Gonzo مين،
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