Street artist makes the world her canvas
A still from Bahia Shehab's "We Love Life" at the Aga Khan Centre gallery in London's Kings Cross
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Article Author: Street artist makes the world her canvas
Media Source: Middle East Eye (UK)
Date: 3 October 2019
The Aga Khan Centre Gallery launched its new exhibition space with At the Corner of a Dream, a solo presentation by the Lebanese-Egyptian artist Bahia Shehab. The show is comprised of five digital artworks produced by the artist in 2019 about the poetry murals she has painted in four different cities: Cairo, New York, Beirut and…
The Aga Khan Centre Gallery launched its new exhibition space with At the Corner of a Dream, a solo presentation by the Lebanese-Egyptian artist Bahia Shehab. The show is comprised of five digital artworks produced by the artist in 2019 about the poetry murals she has painted in four different cities: Cairo, New York, Beirut and Marrakesh, as well as the Greek island of Cephalonia. Commissioned by the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC), the exhibition marks the publication of a book highlighting Shehab’s poetry-based work published by Gingko Press in association with AKU-ISMC. The exhibition also follows the unveiling of a major 30-metre mural called We Will Not Repent, created for Lincoln University in August 2019. The exhibition of Bahia Shehab continues at the Aga Khan Centre gallery, London, till January 2020
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