Tuesday July 10th, 2018
Saudi Art Installation calls for unity at Vancouver Biennale
At a time where there is a massive immigration and refugee crises, this artwork invites us to look at how fences isolate people and thoughts. “The work calls on all of us Muslims and non-Muslims to view what traditionally divides people and find ways to unify human experiences,”
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Sunday July 8th, 2018
“Paradise Has Many Gates” Creating dialogue.
In 2015, Ajlan Gharem drove an hour away from the city of Riyadh and into the vast Saudi Arabian desert. As a setting pink sun washed over the windswept sand, assembly on his latest art piece began: chain-link fences went up one by one, a golden plexiglass chandelier was hung, and a crimson red carpet was gently rolled out.
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Friday June 29th, 2018
Paradise by the Sunset Light
Paradise Has Many Gates, a piece of art by Saudi Arabian artist Ajlan Gharem that is part of the Vancouver Biennale (2018-2020), is visited by people during an evening event at Vanier Park in Vancouver on Wednesday. Transparency, sacred
space, community, asylum and perception are some of the topics explored through this installation.
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Thursday June 28th, 2018
PARADISE HAS MANY GATES
Saudi Arabian artist Ajlan Gharem’s Paradise Has Many Gates launches the Vancouver Biennale. The structure architecturally echoes a traditional mosque though rendered in chain link, making it both airily transparent and ominously evocative of a cage. The dichotomy between form and material evokes the multifaceted conflicts of religious constraint and democratic freedom...
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Wednesday June 27th, 2018
“Paradise Has Many Gates” by Ajlan Gharem
溫哥華雙年展將藝術引入公共空間
沙特裔創作掀序幕 引發無限想像
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Wednesday June 27th, 2018
Chain link mosque first installation for Vancouver Biennale 2018-2020
A transparent mosque by Saudi artist Ajlan Gharem is made out of the same material as a chain-link fence and is the first installation for the fourth Vancouver Biennale.
Ajlan Gharem is one of Saudi Arabia’s leading contemporary artists...
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Tuesday June 26th, 2018
CBC talks about Ajlan Gharem’s ‘Paradise Has Many Gates’
On The Coast: listen from 13:00 to 20:21 minutes to hear more about Ajlan Gharem's 'Paradise Has Many Gates'.
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Tuesday June 26th, 2018
New chain-link mosque public art unveiled in Vancouver
While Ajlan Gharem’s architectural chain-link sculpture structurally resembles a traditional mosque, its use of unconventional materials and visual transparency challenges notions of religious orthodoxy and encourages communities of all faiths to “reimagine” a space free from Islamophobia.
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Monday June 25th, 2018
Here’s the story behind that chain-link mosque in Vanier Park
Multidisciplinary artist Ajlan Gharem’s Paradise Has Many Gates is the first installation to be formally unveiled on June 26 for Vancouver Biennale’s 2018 to 2020 exhibition titled re-IMAGE-n.
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Thursday June 21st, 2018
Art opens up new gateways
At the Vancouver Biennale, Saudi artist Ajlan Gharem's "mosque made of fences" aims to bring cultures together in Vanier Park.
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