Zilberman Gallery project space is pleased to announce Heba Y. Amin’s project exhibition “The Earth is an Imperfect Ellipsoid” which will take place between 18 May and 2 July 2016.
“The Earth is an Imperfect Ellipsoid” is a land surveillance project that utilizes Al-Bakri’s “Kitab al-Masalik wal-Mamalik” (Book of Roads and Kingdoms) -an eleventh-century geography text based on accounts of …
“The Earth is an Imperfect Ellipsoid” is a land surveillance project that utilizes Al-Bakri’s “Kitab al-Masalik wal-Mamalik” (Book of Roads and Kingdoms) -an eleventh-century geography text based on accounts of merchants, geologists and adventurers describing major trade routes in the Islamic empire- and converges it with the narratives of contemporary migration. The project looks specifically at current political …