Passage: Nujoom Al Ghanem Art Supply Mat lamination

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whose surreal fusion of Edo-era aesthetics and Americana helped shape Japan’s pop art movement

Their interrogations span local and global relationalities

a bewitching Italian statue and a fluttering red scarf

the village occupants themselves

Passage: Nujoom Al Ghanem Art Supply Mat laminationThis publication includes a selection of Alghanems poetry and stills from the film commissioned for the National Pavilion UAE at the fifty eighth International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, as well as a selection of images of the installation in Venice. Entitled Passage, the work weaves together two genres of storytelling: the ancient art of Arabic poetry, which continues to be deeply steeped in Alghanems homeland, with filmmaking, a