Alia Ali @ Benrubi Gallery

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Alia Ali @ Benrubi Gallery

April 3rd, 2025 by fstop

Alia Ali, Petrichor, 2024

Alia Ali: Glitzch
April 10 – June 7, 2025

Opening Reception & Book Launch April 10, 6-8 PM

“Alia Ali is a Yemeni-Bosnian-US multi-media artist. Her work explores cultural binaries, challenges culturally sanctioned oppression, and confronts the dualistic barriers of conflicted notions of gender, politics, media, and citizenship.

Working between language, photography, video, textile, and installation, Ali’s work
addresses the politicization of the body, histories of colonization, imperialism, sexism, and racism through projects that take pattern and textile as their primary motif. Textile is central to Ali’s practice. She reminds us of how significant fabrics are to our collective humanity: we are born into it, we sleep in it, we eat on it, we define ourselves by it, we shield ourselves with it and eventually we are swathed in it as we are put to rest. And while it unites us, it also divides us physically and symbolically. Ali’s work broadens this into immersive installations to move past language and offer an expansive, experiential understanding of self, culture, and nation. Weaving us, so to speak, to each other and in turn back to ourselves.”

Benrubi Gallery
529 West 20th Street, Floor 8
NY, NY

Location: New York, New York City Type: Exhibition

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