Sites of Memory, Sites of Amnesia – Abdullah Al Saadi planetarium and restrictions of public space

and restrictions of public space

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Egypt in 1945

It is the result of 40 years of collecting

Sites of Memory, Sites of Amnesia – Abdullah Al Saadi planetarium and restrictions of public spaceAccompanying Abdullah Al Saadi's eponymous solo exhibition at the National Pavilion UAE at the 60th International Venice Biennale, this publication invites an immersion into the artist's singularly subjective universe, offering reflection and meditation rather than explanation or analysis. Abdullah Al Saadi's poetic, expansive, and complex practice dwells outside the Western canons of contemporary art. Rather than attempt to box it within categories