Waiting for Omar Gatlato : a survey of contemporary art from Algeria and its diaspora / edited by Natasha Marie Llorens.

Includes bibliographical references.

Artists who belong to Algeria are caught between a national mythology that does not represent them and a historical space blanked out by state-sanctioned amnesia on both sides of the Mediterranean. Waiting for Omar Gatlato: A Survey of Contemporary Art from Algeria and Its Diaspora presents the work of twenty-five such artists who offer diverse representations of everyday life and are rigorously critical in their engagement with the legacies of Orientalist figuration, modernist abstraction, monumental public art, Conceptual art, and postmodern media theory after 1962, in a postindependence context.00This publication includes the first English translations of texts by key theorists of contemporary art in Algeria on the evolving relationship between art and politics, as well as poetry by Samira Negrouche and a graphic essay by Nawel Louerrad. The book?s title comes from an essay by Wassyla Tamzali on Merzak Allouache?s 1977 film Omar Gatlato.00Exhibition: Art Gallery, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, USA (26.10.2019 - 15.03.2020).

Preface / Alexander Alberro -- Risking the Perception of Poetics : An Introduction / Natasha Marie Llorens -- The Birth of a Cinematographer : Merzak Allouache's Omar Gatlato / Wassyla Tamzali -- Introduction : Daho Djerbal on Decolonizing Colonial History / Madeleine Dobie -- History Writing as Cultural and Political Critique, or The Difficulty of Writing the History of a (De)Colonized Society / Daho Djerbal -- Structures of Reappropriation / Nadira Laggoune-Aklouche -- View of the Fine Arts : Interview with / Nadira Laggoune-Aklouche, Zahia Rahmani -- The Impact of the Arab Revolutions on Artistic Production in Algeria : Between Saving the Local Model and Denouncing Foreign Interference / Fanny Gillet -- Frantz Fanon, an Icon? Thoughts to See : Fanon's Algeria in the Visual Arts / �Emilie Goudal -- Seven Little Jasmine Monologues Six makeshift trees around my bathtub / Samira Negrouche -- Nawel Louerrad, interspersed pages from Regretter l'absence de l'astre -- Artists in the Exhibition : All texts by / Natasha Marie Llorens -- Louisa Babari -- Fay�cal Baghriche -- Bardi -- Mouna Bennamani -- Adel Bentounsi -- Zoulikha Bouabdellah -- Halida Boughriet -- Fatima Chafaa -- EL Meya -- Hakima El Djoudi -- Karim Ghelloussi -- Mounir Gouri -- Mourad Krinah -- Nawel Louerrad -- Amina Menia -- Sonia Merabet -- Yazid Oulab -- Lydia Ourahmane -- Sadek Rahim -- Dania Reymond -- Sara Sadik -- Fethi Sahraoui and La Chambre Claire -- Massinissa Selmani -- Fella Tamzali Tahari -- Djamel Tatah -- Sofiane Zouggar -- Thinking about Art in Disorderly Times Khaled Bouzidi -- Acknowledgments -- Credits -- Colophon.