Shubbak Festival and The Mosaic Rooms presents the first UK solo exhibition by Berlin-based art collective Fehras Publishing Practices. Borrowed Faces: Future Recall looks at the Cold War and its effect on cultural practices in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa region, which generated one of the most fertile periods in the history of Arab culture and publishing.
Artists Sami Rustom, Omar Nicolas and Kenan Darwich have been working together as Fehras Publishing Practices since 2015. Their work playfully explores significant cultural moments in the history of Arab publishing through performance, installation and publications, skillfully blending fiction and reality.
Borrowed Faces unpicks the political and cultural policies of the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, investigating the networks and projects funded by the rival superpowers. The exhibition has three distinct sections, presenting different strands of the artists’ current research.
This exhibition is part of a longer residency delivered in partnership with Delfina Foundation, The Mosaic Rooms and Shubbak, and supported in part by the Goethe-Institut London.
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