Inscription: Jamelie Hassan
Regina: Dunlop Art Gallery, 1990
ISBN 0-920085-41-5
Catalogue accompanying the 1990 exhibition of Jamelie Hassan's work at Dunlop Art Gallery. The catalogue contains two essays, one by curator Peter White, the other by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, wherein "Spivak analyzes four of Hassan's installations from 1985 to 1990 that refer to the controversy surrounding Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses and to issues of censorship, personal identity, colonialism, and sexism, in relation to Islamic culture" (quote taken from the artexte website). "The core of this exhibition is a three-part installation, called The Trilogy. Each part of the trilogy takes its title directly from Salman Rushdie's novels: Midnight's Children, Shame, and The Satanic Verses. Addressing the intimacy of reading in oblique overlays of image and text, identity and voice, The Trilogy was conceived in response to the actual events surrounding the suppression of The Satanic Verses and the threat to Rushdie's life. In addition to The Trilogy, the exhibition included an earlier work, Meeting Nasser, and a thematically related installation designed specifically for Dunlop Art Gallery display cases" (quote taken from the Dunlop Art Gallery website).
ITEM 1990.115 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
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Jamelie Hassan
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