Review | Naima Morelli

Published: review of theater play Libya Back Home

25-10-2019

Libya, North Africa, North Africa, Review

The webmagazine Middle East Monitor has just published my review of the excellent theater play “Libya. Back Home” by Paola Di Mitri, with texts by Miriam Selima Fieno, Giancarlo Fieno and Khalifa Abo Khraisse. It was presented last week at the Romaeuropa Festival.

I’m starting researching a bit Italian colonialism in North Africa, and in Libya in particular, so it was extremely interesting to see this artistic re-elaboration who tackles this subjects, among many important others.

Here is the link to the review

Published! Il Re di Bangkok on Art a Part of Cult(ure)

By: Naima Morelli

01-07-2019

English, Interview, Italiano, Italy, Published, Review, Thailand

IlRediBangkok

A new article of mine in Italian has just been published on the webmagazine Art a Part of Cult(ure). It’s an interview with the three authors of the great graphic novel “Il Re di Bangkok”, Claudio Sopranzetti, Sara Fabbri, Chiara Natalucci, published by ADD Editore.

It was serendipitous to read this work right after my reportage in Thailand, at a time when I’m delving deeper into the graphic novel world.

Here is the link to the interview

Published! Southeast Asian Pavilions at Venice Biennale 2019

By: Naima Morelli

20-06-2019

English, Indonesia, Philippines, Published, Review, Thailand

Hong-Kong based website and platform for collectors CoBo Social has just published my review of the Southeast Asian Pavilions at the 2019 Venice Biennale. I looked at the different national propositions with interest and a bit of a critical eye as well.

Here is the link to the review

2019 Venice Biennale on Middle East Monitor

By: Naima Morelli

14-05-2019

English, Essay, Indonesia, Middle East, Published, Review

VeniceBiennale2019
The 2019 Venice Biennale has asked artists to step into the socio-political realm, in the middle of far-right Matteo Salvini’s Italy. And they have done it, dismantling Orientalism and getting the Mediterranean closer together in the process.

My first article on this 2019 Venice Biennale has just been published by Middle East Monitor.

Here is the link to the article

Published! Review of Godalisation

By: Naima Morelli

19-03-2019

Collection, English, Review, Singapore

Godalisation

I reviewed for Cobo Teng Jee Hum’s second book on collecting, focused on history of Singapore. The book offers insight into the history of contemporary art in the city-state.

Here is the link to the review

Published! Pure Land at Tang Contemporary for CoBo

By: Naima Morelli

22-02-2019

English, Review, Thailand, Vietnam

Dinh Q. Lê’s Pure Land: Beauty in Everything

One of the most interesting, beautiful and disquieting shows I have visited in Bangkok was “Pure Land” at Tang Contemporary in Bangkok, a show by artist Dinh Q. Lê’s, curated by Loredana Paracciani. I have written about it for CoBo.

Here is the link to the review

Published! The Teng Collection at Art Stage 2018

By: Naima Morelli

16-02-2018

English, Review, Singapore, Visit

tengcollection

CoBo has published my review of the Teng Collection at Art Stage 2018. I was very happy to write about the first ever showcase of this outstanding collection, and compelled to learn and reflect on the ethos who is driving the collectors.

This piece actually came out last week but I didn’t post it immediately on the blog because in these past few days I have been busy running around Phnom Penh to collect interviews for my current reportage on Cambodian contemporary art. But here you go, you can read it at the link below.

Here is the link to the review

Published! Interview with Gerald Leow on CoBo

By: Naima Morelli

12-01-2018

English, Interview, Published, Reportage, Research, Review, Singapore

CoBo Social has just published an interview with one of my favorite Singaporean artists, Gerald Leow. We did the interview this past June, at the time he exhibited his latest series “I am Time Grown Old To Destroy the World” at Chan+Hori gallery in Singapore.

Here is the link to the interview

Published! Review of Home Beirut at MAXXI for Memo

By: Naima Morelli

22-11-2017

English, Middle East, Published, Review, Visit

Beirut

I feel today the MAXXI Museum in Rome is the one contemporary art institution who is really nailing it in the Eternal City. The multifaceted and highly political show “Home Beirut: Sounding the Neighbors” is proof of that. The exhibition focuses on Beirut artists representing city’s development and destiny, and introducing the local artistic scene to a European public.

This show is the third chapter of the “Mediterranean Trilogy” through which the MAXXI has been examining the interaction between the artistic communities of Europe and the Middle East. The aim is prompting the birth of a new trans-Mediterranean culture, critically important for the global landscape of artistic creation.

The show presented 30 artists, architects, filmmakers, musicians, dancers, researchers, activists negotiating between critical reflections of recent history of conflicts, through archiving and re-enacting memories, and prospection of the future, through attempts of urban transformation and global outreaching.

Here is the link to the review

Published! Southeast Asian Pavilions at the 2017 Venice Biennale

By: Naima Morelli

01-06-2017

English, Essay, Indonesia, Italy, Published, Review, Singapore, Visit

seavenicebiennale2017

Here is my piece for CoBo on the Southeast Asian Pavilions at the Venice Biennale. This piece wasn’t easy to write and I have been quite critical – something I don’t usually like to be. But this Biennale really called for criticism, the way I see it.

Here’s the link to the piece

Published! Review of Art Stage 2017 on D_Railed

By: Naima Morelli

07-02-2017

Published, Review, Singapore, Visit

artstage2017
D_Railed Magazine has just published my review of Art Stage Singapore 2017. In this piece I engage in a different set of reflection compared to the ones I explored in my previous article for CoBo, where I specifically looked at the decreased participation of foreign galleries to the fair this year. The final observation is the same though: Art Stage, just like many other art fairs all over the world, is becoming more and more region-based.

Here’s the link to the article

Published! Randa Maddah on Memo

By: Naima Morelli

14-10-2016

English, Middle East, Published, Review

memorandamaddah

Middle East Monitor has just published my article about Syrian artist Randa Maddah, whose work has recently been presented in the exhibition “A Hair Tie” at Gallery One in Ramallah, Palestine.

Here’s the link to the article

Naima Morelli

Published: review of theater play Libya Back Home

Published! Il Re di Bangkok on Art a Part of Cult(ure)

2019 Venice Biennale on Middle East Monitor

Published! Review of Godalisation

Published! Pure Land at Tang Contemporary for CoBo

Published! The Teng Collection at Art Stage 2018

Published! Review of Home Beirut at MAXXI for Memo

Published! Southeast Asian Pavilions at the 2017 Venice Biennale

Published! Review of Art Stage 2017 on D_Railed

Published! Randa Maddah on Memo

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