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Subtle symbols of a refugee
Christine Lindey hails the luminosity and nuance of Kurdish-Iraqi visionary Walid Siti’s new exhibition
If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
Reconstruction
EOA.Projects Gallery, London SW11
5/5
KURDISH-IRAQI artist Walid Siti addresses and expresses his native land’s beauties, conflicts, political upheavals and attempts at reconstruction.
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