ADD FRIEND SO YOU CAN SPEAK WITH THE PRESIDENT
by Ali Eyal
Interactive Installation
Unique artwork, 2013
This interactive piece allows the audience to connect via the computer with the organisations that
suppressed the internet in Iraq and to chat directly
through Facebook. The audience will therefore be able
to see political figures that have governed Iraq in
the years since the foundation of the Iraqi state but
also interact with the imaginary characters that they
represent on Facebook . These characters will reply to
any questions that may be put to them.
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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