In the hushed geometries of Paris’s Palais de Tokyo, amid the heavy silences of history and the noise of global turmoil, Chalisée Naamani’s new exhibition Octogone opens like a quiet invocation. The Franco-Iranian artist, whose work consistently straddles the personal and the political, has composed a spatial and symbolic reverie—at once installation, procession, and arena—where […]
In the late-afternoon haze of Luxor, dust shimmers like gold leaf as it rises from the galloping hooves of Arabian horses. Their riders, draped in flowing galabeyas and woven shawls, lean low, guiding their animals with an instinct that feels as established as the Nile itself. Amid the reverberations of flutes and the thrum of […]
In the baroque quietude of a Coptic church tucked away in Upper Egypt, a faded icon of the Virgin Mary gazes out from behind a veil of plexiglass. Her expression is tender, but her halo is edged with plastic roses—bright, synthetic, defiant. This small image is one of many in Plastic Jesus, the striking new […]
