Untitled May 1991 [Gulf War Work]

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Description

Physical description

A photographic installation comprising 20 photographs, to be arranged in 4 rows of 5, according to the artist's specification. Each piece has a roughly painted outer wooden frame, with a sheet of hardboard stapled into the inner side of the frame to hold the photograph in place. Glazed.

Label

Jananne Al-Ani was born in Iraq to an Arab father and an Irish mother. She has lived in Britain since 1980. Here she explores her reaction to the Gulf War in 1991, watching events develop through the media, and simultaneously as someone directly affected through her personal links to Iraq. The photographs are arranged to show cultural artefacts above family photographs, and formal portraits of her mother and sisters above media images of the conflict. These juxtapositions hint at the destruction of the artist's family history and national heritage. They also emphasise the complexity of events which are often simplified by the media into polar opposites of 'them' and 'us', good and evil.

Inscription

Jahanne Al-Ani Untitled No 1

Object Details

Category

Art

Creator

Al-Ani, Jananne (Artist)

Production date

1991

Materials

Frame: wood

Support: paper

medium: Silver Gelatin Print

Dimensions

Individual Parts: Depth 16 mm, Height 159 mm, Width 159 mm

Catalogue number

Art.IWM ART 16417

Object associations

Associated people and organisations

Al-Ani, Jananne
Associated events

01/7(536.8) [Gulf War]
Gulf War
Associated subjects

archaeology
Black and white
Associated keywords

artist's response
Media
Family

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