OASIS BEHAVIOUR
by Ali Eyal
Maquette, Mixed Media
Unique artwork, 2015
Ali Eyal lost his father during the sectarian conflict
in 2006. The newspaper “Oasis” belongs to Ali Eyal’s
mother. She announced in this newspaper the death of
the missing Eyal to be able to get a salary from the
government for her underage children. At that time,
a lot of women lost their husbands. However, directly beside the announcement of dead and missing persons, one can find jokes and a crossword puzzle. Ali
Eyal seeks thereby to document the co-existence of
sadness and joy in Iraq. He obtained his mother’s
permission to borrow this “Oasis”-page and put sand on
it.
Ali Eyal (b. Baghdad, 1994) is a visual multimedia artist and uses different media to examine social
attitudes and complexities. Eyal graduated from the
Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad, specialising in
visual arts. He has exhibited in Baghdad, Najaf and
other cities. Especially noteworthy is the fact that
he exhibited at the Sharjah Biennial with the writer,
artist, and architect Tony Chakar, who was the illustrator of his book “The dialogue that is us,” in 2012.
Ali Eylal is a member of Sada,the Association for Contemporary Iraqi Arts, and was chosen to exhibit at the
Cairo Festival of Video Art in 2013.
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