An invitation to rediscover the diversity of 20th-century Arab modernism and to take a fresh look at the history of art scenes still little known in Europe, focusing on the relationship between Arab artists and Paris throughout the last century.
Arab Presences. Modern Art and Decolonisation. Paris 1908-1988 is the English adaptation of the catalogue for the exhibition
Présences arabes. Art moderne et décolonisation. Paris, 1908-1988, held at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris from April 5th to August 25th, 2024.
Featuring Shafic Abboud, Abou Naddara,
Hamed Abdalla, Youssef Abdelke, Amal Abdenour, Boubaker Adjali,
Etel Adnan, Maliheh Afnan, Mohamed Aksouh, Hala Alabdalla, Farid Aouad, Fatma Arargi, Mohamed Ataallah, Jean-Michel Atlan, Amine El-Bacha, Simone Baltaxé, Michel Basbous, Ala Bashir, Fatma Haddad-Mahieddine (Baya), Souhila Bel Bahar, Farid Belkahia, Nejib Belkhodja,
Fouad Bellamine, Mahjoub Benbella, Aly Ben Salem, Abdallah Benanteur, Djamila Bent Mohamed, Samta Benyahia, Maurice Bismouth, Etienne Bouchaud, Pierre Boucherle, Kamal Boullata, Huguette Caland, Nasser Chaura,
Ahmed Cherkaoui, Saloua Raouda Choucair,
Chaouki Choukini, Collectif Cinémétèque, Inji Efflatoun, André Elbaz,
Fouad Elkoury, Errò, Ammar Farhat, Safia Farhat, Djamel Farès, Moustapha Farrouk, Dias Ferhat, André Fougeron, Émile Gaudissard, Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar, Jilali Gharbaoui, Gibrankhalil Gibran, Abdelaziz Gorgi, Abdelkader Guermaz, Abraham Hadad, Marie Hadad, Khadim Haider, Ahmed Hajeri, Jamil Hamoudi, Francis Harburger, Faik Hassan, Mona Hatoum, Adam Henein, Georges Henein, Mohamed Issiakhem, Marwan Kassab Bachi (Marwan), Mahjoub Al-Jaber (Jaber), Abdul Kader El-Janabi, Henri Gustave Jossot, Fouad Kamel, Fêla Kéfi-Leroux, Mohammed Khadda, Rachid Khimoune, Rachid Koraïchi, Georges Koskas, Mohamed Kouaci, Claude Lazar, Ahmed Louardiri, Nja Mahdaoui, Jean De Maisonseul, Azouaou Mammeri, Maria Manton, Denis Martinez, Antoine Malliarakis (Mayo), Hassan Massoudy, Hatem El-Mekki, Mohamed Melehi, Rabah Mellal, Choukri Mesli, Mireille Miaihle, Mahmoud Mokhtar,
Fateh Moudarres, Philippe Mourani, Mehdi Moutashar, Laila Muraywid, Nazir Nabaa, Edgar Naccache, Effat Naghi, Mohammed Bey Naghi, Marguerite Nakhla, Rafa Nasiri, Ahmad Nawach, Amy Nimr,Leila Nseir, Mohammed Racim, Omar Racim, Samir Rafi, Aref El-Rayess, Jocelyne Saab, Georges Hanna Sabbagh, Valentine De Saint-Point, Shakir Hassan Al-Said, Mahmoud Saïd, Nadia Saikali, Samir Salameh, Mona Saudi, Jewad Selim, Jean Sénac, Juliana Seraphim, Ibrahim Shadha, Gazbia Sirry, Chaïbia Tallal, Gouider Triki, Yahia Turki, Madiha Umar, Seif Wanly,
Nil Yalter,
Ramsès Younan, Salah Yousry, Fahrelnissa Zeid, Bibi Zogbé.
