Name: Shaweesh (Saudi Arabian, b. 1990)
Brand: Al-Baik (Iwo Jima)
Price: 1600.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Shaweesh (Saudi Arabian, b. 1990)
Al-Baik (Iwo Jima)
signed in Arabic; signed, titled, numbered and dated 'Shaweesh Al-Baik 2013 7/25' (on the mount)
handprinted photo-etching
image: 15³⁄₄ x 19²⁄₃ in. (40 x 50cm.)
sheet: 22¹⁄₂ x 29³⁄₄ in. (57.1 x 75.5cm.)
Executed in 2013, this work is number seventeen from an edition of twenty-five

Donated by a private collector who acquired this work directly from the artist.

D. Mills & L. Danforth, Phantom Punch: Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia, Bates College, Lewiston 2017.

London, Edge of Arabia Gallery, EOA Edition #01, 2014.
Salt Lake City, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Cities of Conviction, 2018.
Memphis, Art Museum of University of Memphis, Desert to Delta, 2018.

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I grew up watching animation since cartoons back then used to be shown at certain hours of the day and were interrupted by the News. That was before we had devoted channels for both … We live in an age where finding the excess of history is obtainable. I create work that takes the observer back to the context in which he first encountered these objects in a world devastated by wars, questioning the truth of nostalgic response and false memory.
- Shaweesh