The Colonial Harem By Malek Alloula
Book Review, August/ September 1987, Art & Artists
The Colonial Harem, Malek Alloula
Intro. by Barbara Harlow
University of Minnesota Press, Theory and History of Literature,
Volume 21, Minneapolis, 1986
In the past few years there has appeared a plethora of new books—in most cases accompanying exhibitions—on late 19th-century photography of the Middle East. While one has come to welcome [...]
8th Istanbul Biennial
Review of the 8th Istanbul Biennial - 2003
Published in Contemporary Magazine
Exhibition website
The 8th Istanbul Biennial arrived in a climate of restless anticipation. Everyone held their breath praying that there would not be another 9/11, earthquake or other nasty surprises. Even the terrorists obliged, and only on the last day of the show the two truck-bombs [...]
istanbul
Istanbul Review -
Contemporary Magazine, 2002.
This is not the first time I am obliging myself to write an overview of this gloriously beautiful and ugly town Istanbul. Given my pathological despair and well-know penchant to dig out the negative, to scratch the surface glimmer, to seek the sinister and the unethical, it should come as no [...]
r.e.s.p.e.c.t.
A review of ARS 01, Kiasma, Helsinki
NU Magazine, 2001
I saw ARS 01 right on the heels of the 7th Istanbul Biennial. Hence, it is necessary to digress a bit and tell apart these two international projects that are coupled by no other fact they recur every now and then. I often ask myself the reason [...]
A Sleepy Biennial
6th Istanbul Biennial Review in Flash Art, 1999
The curator of the Istanbul Biennial, Paolo Colombo, writes in the slim text to the exhibition catalogue that, “While art may convey a wealth of information about the norm, I instinctively turned to those artists who practice a kind of selfanalysis and who expound feeling and sensibility.” This [...]