Aïcha Hamu, Flat Riot , 2009, 205 x 160 cm. Carpet from Afro Hair arranged in format of French garden. © Image courtesy the artist and Galerie Catherine Issert.

Pradise Row presents a group exhibition Balla-Drama, “We Dream of Language Without History”.

Balla-Drama takes the contested ground of identity as its subject. The title is a combination of the Arabic ‘balla’ (meaning ‘without’) with the English ‘drama’. It has long been a dream of the Universalist ideologies that have dominated modern Western societies, to dissolve the ancient tribal, ethnic, linguistic and religious ties that for the vast sweep of history have been the defining elements of human identity.

Artists participating in the exhibition: Farhad Ahrarnia; Lulwah Al-Homoud; Samta Benyahia; Shezad Dawood; Ala Ebtekar; Mounir Fatmi; Karim Ghelloussi; Aïcha Hamu; Hayv Kahraman; Timo Nasseri; Henna Nadeem; Ayman Yossri Daydban.

Balla-Drama – Group Show “We Dream of Language Without History”
Date: Jun 26th – Jul 25th, 2009
Open: Wed-Sat, 12:00-18:00
Place: PARADISE ROW
Address: 17 Hereford St (off Cheshire St), London, E2 6EX
Tel : 44(0)207 6133311
http://www.paradiserow.com