Artist’s Rooms: Taysir Batniji Art Jameel ecocriticism

ecocriticism

and island studies

an unpublished piece by art historian and curator Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes and a commission responding to the project by Sharjah-based writer and researcher Saira Ansari

and respect for

Published March 1

Artist’s Rooms: Taysir Batniji Art Jameel ecocriticismThis bilingual publication features an essay by Vicky Moufawad Paul, Mourning and the non citizen: Taysir Batnijis To My Brother, where she examines specificities of mourning rituals in relation to its portrayal in literature and western visual culture. Drawn largely from the Art Jameel Collection, Artists Rooms is a series of solo exhibitions by influential, innovative artists, with particular focus on practitioners from the Middle East, Asia and