Wafaa Bilal Joins Lawrie Shabibi

Lawrie Shabibi is pleased to announce Iraqi-born Wafaa Bilal as the newest addition to the gallery. Works from his Ashes Series - photographs of miniature model reconstructions of buildings destroyed by the war in Iraq - will be presented for the first time at Art Dubai this March.

 

Known internationally for his on-line performative and interactive works, Bilal's thought provoking works deal with international politics and internal dynamics often using his body as the canvas.  His most recent and provocative work3rdi involved surgically implanting a camera on the back of his head to spontaneously transmit images to the web 24 hours a day - a statement on surveillance, the mundane and the things we leave behind. Bilal's 2010 work "....And Counting" similarly used his own body as a medium. His back was tattooed with a map of Iraq and dots representing Iraqi and US casualties - the Iraqis in invisible ink seen only under a black light. Bilal's 2007 installation, Domestic Tension, also addressed the Iraq war. Bilal spent a month in a Chicago gallery as the target of a paintball gun that people could shoot at him over the internet.

February 13, 2013