Preface to the third edition_Acknowledgment (Homme)

Walid Raad Lebanese-American

2014

Not on view

This piece is part of Raad’s ongoing project titled Scratching on Things I Could Disavow, which the artist frames as a new chapter in the history of the art market and museums in the Arab world. During a visit to the Louvre in Paris, Raad noticed that the surfaces of Islamic art objects housed in glass vitrines appeared to mingle with the reflections of other works nearby, creating the illusion of blended forms. Inspired by the effect, he produced hybrid sculptures, which he imagines as "mutating" or "transforming" in transit from the Louvre in Paris to the Louvre Abu Dhabi. In this way, the playful intermingling of real and trompe l’oeil shadows on these works appear to physically manifest the ideological and discursive forces affecting the contemporary display and art historical narratives of Islamic art.

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Title: Preface to the third edition_Acknowledgment (Homme)
Artist: Walid Raad (Lebanese-American, born Chbanieh 1967)
Date: 2014
Medium: 3D print plaster composite, paint
Edition: 3/3 + 1 artist's proof
Dimensions: 11 × 8 3/4 × 5 in., 3.4 lb. (27.9 × 22.2 × 12.7 cm, 1.5 kg)
Classification: Sculpture
Credit Line: Purchase, Bequest of Gioconda King, by exchange, 2017
Object Number: 2017.25
Rights and Reproduction: © Walid Raad, courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, and Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg and Beirut
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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