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A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Familiar Stranger, an exhibition of recent photographs by Fellowship Artist Manal Abu-Shaheen. This is Abu-Shaheen’s first solo exhibition in New York City.
Familiar Stranger brings together a selection of black and white landscape and street photographs from Abu-Shaheen’s ongoing series Beirut. Shot in the city where she was born this series explores the monumental scale of western advertising in relationship to the post-war developing urban setting. Abu-Shaheen examines how the idealized image of one culture interacts with the reality of another.
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