Home Ground is a valuable show – less, perhaps, than a view into a little-seen art scene but certainly more than a glimpse. Open less than a year, the Aga Khan Museum already feels like an important presence in the country’s cultural firmament.
JAMES ADAMS for The Globe and Mail – Published Monday, July 27, 2015
Curating and mounting an exhibition of Arab contemporary art from the Middle East and North Africa has to be a fraught affair. After all, the region – if one can even deign to use such an encompassing term to describe what clearly are diverse societies – has long been a geopolitical and religious hot spot. Should the exhibition be a raw reflection of those tensions? Or feature art of a more disinterested and personal kind? Should it highlight the “exoticism” or “otherness” of the region’s art-making, or demonstrate affinities and congruences with the so-called “international art scene”? Link artists by adherence to a particular trend or aesthetic? Or celebrate eclecticism and individual difference?
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