Jananne Al-Ani Explained

Jananne Al-Ani
Birth Date:1966
Birth Place:Kirkuk, Iraq
Nationality:Iraqi-Irish
Known For:Photographer, film-maker
Website:Official Website

Jananne Al-Ani (born 1966) is an Irish-Iraqi artist.

Personal life

Al-Ani was born in Kirkuk, Iraq in 1966 to an Iraqi father and Irish mother. She studied Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art and graduated with an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art in 1997. She is currently Senior Research Fellow at the University of the Arts London, and lives and works in London.[1]

Career

Working with photography, film and video, Al-Ani has an ongoing interest in the documentary tradition, through intimate recollections and more official accounts. Her work also engages with the landscape of the Middle East, its archaeology and its visual representation.

Summarising her work in an interview with curator and critic Nat Muller, Al-Ani said: "I have a longstanding interest in the representation of the body. The earliest works I exhibited were concerned with the way women's bodies have been represented throughout the history of western painting. In advance of the development of photography and film, the shifting ideals of feminine beauty were clearly mapped out in the work of artists. However, the media coverage of the 1991 Gulf War, which focused on aerial and satellite images of a depopulated, barren landscape, had a major impact on my work. What followed was a reassessment on my part of the work of Orientalist painters and the way in which fantasies about the body and the landscape of the Middle East were constructed in their works. I began to see the body itself as a contested territory and during the 90s produced a series of works that attempted to counter the European obsession with uncovering and exposing the bodies of veiled women. More recently, with the Aesthetics of Disappearance project, I've attempted to re-occupy that space so, while the presence of the body is implied rather than explicit, the traces of human activity in the landscape are clear to see."[2]

Awards

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions and screenings

Exhibitions co-curated by Al-Ani

Collections

Jananne Al-Ani's work is held in the following collections:

See also

References

Book: Lloyd. Fran. Contemporary Arab Women's Art: Dialogues of the present. 1999. WAL Women's Art Library. London. 1860645992.

External links

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jananne Al-Ani - Staff Research Profiles A-Z - UAL. Team. University of Arts London, Web. www.arts.ac.uk. 2016-03-05.
  2. Web site: Technologies of History: Jananne Al-Ani in conversation with Nat Muller. 2014-06-26. Ibraaz. 2016-03-05.
  3. Web site: John Kobal Foundation. www.johnkobal.org. 2016-03-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20170803233310/http://www.johnkobal.org/pages/awards-JKPPA.php. 2017-08-03. dead.
  4. Web site: EASTinternational. Kuzemczak. Paul. www.eastinternational.net. 2016-03-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20170510120910/http://www.eastinternational.net/east/artists/pages/2000_pages/alani_2000.html. 2017-05-10. dead.
  5. Web site: Abraaj Group Art Prize. abraajgroupartprize.com. 2016-03-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20160306132720/http://abraajgroupartprize.com/peoples_choice_detail.php?artist=2. 2016-03-06. dead.
  6. Web site: Home. Imperial War Museums. 2016-03-05.
  7. Web site: Art Now: Jananne Al-Ani: The Visit Tate. www.tate.org.uk. 2016-03-05.
  8. Web site: Shadow Sites: Recent Work by Jananne Al-Ani Exhibitions Freer and Sackler Galleries. www.asia.si.edu. 2016-03-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20171007204326/http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/current/shadow-sites.asp. 2017-10-07. dead.
  9. Web site: .: Beirut Art Center :.. 27 April 2016. 29 August 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140829182625/http://beirutartcenter.org/exhibitions.php?exhibid=329&statusid=3. dead.
  10. Web site: Jananne Al-Ani Southbank Centre. www.southbankcentre.co.uk. 2016-03-05. 8 March 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140308040025/http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/jananne-al-ani-1000492. dead.
  11. Web site: 20th Biennale of Sydney. 27 April 2016. 2 April 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170402195838/https://www.biennaleofsydney.com.au/about-us/history/2012-2/. dead.
  12. Web site: Sharjah Art Foundation. Sharjah Art Foundation. 27 April 2016.
  13. Web site: 13th Istanbul biennial. 27 April 2016. 2 May 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160502014751/http://13b.iksv.org/en. dead.
  14. Web site: Jananne Al-Ani. www.daniellearnaud.com. 2016-03-05.
  15. Web site: Jananne Al-Ani Tate. www.tate.org.uk. 2016-03-05.
  16. Web site: Aerial IV Jananne Al-Ani V&A Search the Collections. collections.vam.ac.uk. 2016-03-05.
  17. Web site: Shadow Sites I Arts Council Collection. www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk. 2016-03-05.
  18. Web site: Jananne Al-Ani. www.centrepompidou.fr. 2016-03-05.
  19. Web site: Jananne Al Ani in Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection. https://web.archive.org/web/20170510174829/http://collections.si.edu/search/tag/tagDoc.htm?recordID=fsg_FSC-GR-782.1-2&hlterm=jananne%2Bal%2Bani. 2017-05-10. dead.
  20. Web site: Jananne Al-Ani. www.mumok.at. 2016-03-05.
  21. Web site: Edge Of Arabia - Contemporary art and creative movements from the Arab World. edgeofarabia.com. 2016-03-05.
  22. Web site: Film and Video Umbrella. 27 April 2016.

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