Exhibition - Kader Attia

I went browsing online to find current exhibitions; I ended up finding the Saatchi London Contemporary art gallery, which is currently exhibiting - "UNVEILED: NEW ART FROM THE MIDDLE EAST" which contains mainly installations. Although there are about 20 artists exhibiting, my favourite is Kader Attia.

Go Too:
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/unveiled/index.htm
to see the full online exhibtion

Kader Attia
Ghost, 2007
Aluminium foil
Dimensions variable













In Ghost, a large installation of a group of Muslim women in prayer, Attia renders their bodies as vacant shells, empty hoods devoid of personhood or spirit. Made from tin foil - a domestic, throw away material - Attia’s figures become alien and futuristic, synthesising the abject and divine. Bowing in shimmering meditation, their ritual is equally seductive and hollow, questioning modern ideologies, identity, social perception, devotion and exclusion.