Patterns, Costumes & Stencils – Chant Avedissian art research special edition historian Nasser Rabbat

historian Nasser Rabbat

and their collocation with today’s environment

Oraib Toukan presents an informal register of modernist Palestinian architecture—an assemblage of images and stories collected from 2013 to 2015 in the cities of Nablus

to the grating difficulties of the 2015 garbage crisis and the struggle to accommodate and assimilate refugees

the Chaire de l’Institut du Monde Arabe (2003)

Patterns, Costumes & Stencils – Chant Avedissian art research special edition historian Nasser RabbatPatterns, Costumes & Stencils is a reflection of the diverse peoples, cultures, and traditions that have influenced Chant Avedissian's work, from the colorful textiles of Rajasthan and the glazed bricks of Samarkand to Egyptian magazine covers from the 1960s. Avedissian is an artist who continues to provoke through his iconoclastic images that probe ideas of consumerism, art and propaganda, creativity and copyright, and tradition and modernity.