Crude - Exhibition Catalogue Water Bottle Published date 2018

Published date 2018

the author addresses the urgent need in the contemporary art world for curatorial strategies that provide alternatives to exclusionary models of collecting and display

led to breakthroughs by Renaissance practitioners such as Copernicus and Kepler

Adnan Al Sayed

Crude - Exhibition Catalogue Water Bottle Published date 2018The publication features texts by Murtaza Vali as well as rare archival and photographic material looking at the history of crude: oil as an archive, infrastructure and technology. Vali reflects on the works in the exhibition as well as the specific technologies and immaterialities that oil has enabled on a sociological, cultural and environmental level in the regionnarrating an alternate material history of modernity in the region. Artists included: