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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/open-eye-gallery-liverpool-bienn
 ial-2018-beautiful-world-where-are-you/
SUMMARY:Open Eye Gallery: Open Eye Gallery: Liverpool Biennial 2018: Beauti
 ful World Where Are You?
DESCRIPTION:Open Eye Gallery presents works by George Osodi and Madiha Aija
 z.\n\nNigerian Monarchs is a series of photographs that depicts the regio
 nal rulers in George Osodi’s home country of Nigeria. The images convey
  the different personalities of the rulers as well as the extravagant rega
 lia that now stand as symbols of lost power: their role has been largely r
 elegated to a ceremonial one with no constitutional powers. Celebrating th
 e ethnic diversity and cultural complexity of Nigeria\, the portraits also
  reference Europe’s colonialist past: some of the rulers’ ancestors we
 re kings during times of slavery. Osodi hopes to redress their inaccurate 
 depiction during the early days of colonialism by portraying the rulers in
  the stately and dignified manner that befits them.\n\nMadiha Aijaz’s ne
 w film installation These Silences Are All the Words explores the public
  libraries of Karachi\, Pakistan\, against the backdrop of the city’s ch
 anging landscape. Focusing on librarians who have been working for years i
 n traditional institutions such as Bedil Library\, Aijaz tells the stories
  of an aging intelligentsia. The conversations with both librarians and th
 e library’s users reflect on the shift of language from Urdu and its poe
 tic and literary history to the ambition and individualism associated with
  English. Many of Aijaz’s works similarly offer a perspective on a count
 ry sharply divided along linguistic lines. Her work contextualises the com
 plexity of the postcolonial state and its ambitions surrounding the Englis
 h language\, not only as the legacy of the Raj\, but also as a tool for au
 thority and social mobility. Using photography\, film and text\, Aijaz com
 bines different media to present a city’s history from a literary point 
 of view.\n\nMadiha Aijaz is commissioned by Liverpool Biennial\, Karachi B
 iennale and The Tetley\, as part of the New North and South\, in collabora
 tion with Hospitalfield and ROSL Arts\n\n\n\nOpen Eye Gallery works with p
 eople to explore photography’s unique ability to connect\, to tell stori
 es\, to inquire\, to reflect on humanity’s past and present\, and to cel
 ebrate its diversity and creativity. Founded in 1977\, it is one of the UK
 ’s leading photography spaces\, and the only gallery dedicated to photog
 raphy and related media in the North West of England
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LOCATION:Open Eye Gallery\, Mann Island\, Liverpool Waterfront\, Liverpool\
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