Familiar Stranger
Manal Abu-Shaheen
FELLOWSHIP GALLERY
Untitled (Shoppers). Beirut, Lebanon, 2015, Archival fiber inkjet print, 22 x 33 inches
February 9 - March 12, 2017
Opening Reception: February 11th from 5-7pm
Artist Talk: February 11th at 5:30pm
Familiar Stranger brings together a selection of black and white landscape and street photographs from Manal Abu-Shaheen’s ongoing series Beirut. Shot in the city where she was born this series explores the monumental scale of western advertising in relationship to the post-war developing urban setting. Abu-Shaheen examines how the idealized image of one culture interacts with the reality of another.
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