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9 – 13 October 2024

Ali Eyal & David Horvitz
A new garden from old wounds
11 SEP - 9 NOV 2024


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Page “17”

Berlin's Drawing's Pad And 2020



Colored pencil, ink and gouache on paper 
8.5 x 11.7 inches (11 x 14 inches framed)




Notebook- envelope my hand actually I don’t know, with details. The size is like the size of your hand. I just got an envelope and opened it today and found my cousin keeps bees and grows fruits. So he can get a farm. I just got two faces and opened them today and I just found papers and saw the ink everywhere instead of honey. 



Today I’ve sculpted new statue in the farm and planted new tree. You will not see the face only the back of back of that statue. You will not see the face. You will not see me. “Portrait execution” You will not see the farm. You will not see the paper. 



The ink is spreading on my hair or umm on the paper or maybe my pillow I don’t know. You know the size. Ok so today I rode on my cousin's back, laughing until the heaviness of my body weighed his to the floor. At the time I was with him on their large farm that he always dreamed of visiting. Frightened, he fled from me into his grandfather's large guest room which was infested with spiders. Spiderwebs covered every corner of the house and framed his grandfather’s forehead. Have a nice day my friends. This is just a drawing stuck in my hair or hair stuck in my paper. 



Umm you know I still have enough papers and enough ink in my pen that I bought them from Berlin. This drawing by the tree that I planted last papers ago. This is my new neighbor asked the tree/me to make a drawing for her, she’s always return with the dust as her companion, covering her head and hands. @backstoryache 



Have moved to a new place to a new paper, the paper just moved to new bed. The bed moved to new notebook. Every room in it did not know how to present itself to others as a function and defined space, as a kitchen or a bedroom or a guest room, only the stairs were easy to identify. 



Um the sun in your sky right after a subcutaneous injection, as seen through my window. The grass of the table was flooded with sweat. I’m happy that I still have enough papers in my pen and enough ink to thank you Karim Adduchi for the table, two chairs, roll of paper and easel. The shadow has a beautiful table. @karimadduchi



Hi, nothing important,um my hand hurt a lot, one of my strands alleviated that pain. Umm this is my new jumpsuit was stuck in my hair. This drawing was stuck in my hair but someone put his hands in my chest and made an opening from my throat to my stomach. He wore me as a jumpsuit. He walked around the farm wearing my body; I cursed him but he did not care. Have a lovely weekend.



Uf I thought this is was the last paper. Today while the canvas under hypnosis was able to give me more paper.




Berlin’s drawing pad, I was inside half paper of land surrounded by fake houses from three directions. I leaned on one of the papers of this land, put my ink in my embrace. Um your sky is a histopathologic finding of myocardial infarction “heart attack”



Nothing important just new sealed bag, to be opened by authorized personnel only. Open it later. Medium strands on paper. Size: The same size of your envelope. Year...



Berlin’s drawing pad, eh the sky is a natural hairlines, this paper and forest growing from the lawyer’s head that spurred the paper of my plastic bag. His countenance not mine, and you can see the absence of muscle. There isn’t an atom of my work in it. 




Today’s sunset. Today’s sketch. This paper was implemented today by ‘the frontally’. From Berlin’s drawing pad. 



Berlin’s drawing pad, another heart attack. One of these days, I tried to come into the form of a butterfly or a cat or a dove or a paper. I was looking forward to a plastic bag but only found darkness or scenarios where I did not exist. I used the dove for only forty minutes; these forty minutes were forty years. I consumed the dove’s entire life, its happiness, destroyed its youth, and brought it into old age. Afterwards, I left it as a corpse at my family's farm. 



Berlin’s drawing pad, um this is the last paper. No more ink. Your sky is people are staring at you. Today I excavated the grave. I took the strands, papers, my plant, my house, ink and everything to my room. The pen says: All the residents in the farm gathered around his paper demanding that he return us to the grave. He responded to neither his mother nor his pen who begged him. He carried us and put everything in between carpets and mattress as if I was banknote. As a drawing pad I opened both my papers. My left paper looked as if it was irritated inside with ink.. Soon i will upload the complete series to my website. Enjoy your a great day. Sorry about my English, English: sorry about Ali. Haha


This is the traces of the facing page on the back of another. 


Artworks

Look what I remember, a new garden from old wounds and Just a group school photo, but.. Tonight’s Programmem is Painting Size 80x60cm.Paper, pen, map in a pocket and my mom surprised me to show me a 2000 calendar, but what did I show my mom? The Blue Ink Pocket? and An Indefinite appearance or two walls and 6x9 doesn’t fit everything and Don't let the beautiful colors fool you, who would draw Goofy inside the rooms of grownups? And Where do the walls of the museum go when they are forgotten? Where does a thought go when it's forgotten? Autumn Solo Show. Berlin's drawing's pad. No Part Of This Book May Be Reproduced, In Any Way, By Photocopying, Recording, Or Otherwise, Except With The Prior Written Consent Of The Publisher, and  


Solo Shows


From the creases of my eyelid, In the head's sunrise and In the head's dusk there’s retrieving an Obscured Present/Presence


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Ali Eyal (b.1994) is an artist working with painting, drawing, and video to explore the relationships between personal history, transitory memories, politics, and identity. Eyal is currently featured in Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present (2023). Eyal's solo exhibitions include In the Head's Sunrise, Brief Histories, New York (2023); In the Head's Dusk, SAW Gallery, Ottawa (2023). Recent group exhibitions include, Is It Morning for You Yet?, the 58th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (2023); Surviving the Long Wars: Reckon and Reimagine, Chicago Cultural Center (2023); Documenta 15, Kassel (2022); Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991-2011, MoMA PS1, New York (2020); How to Reappear: Through the quivering leaves of independent publishing, Beirut Art Center, Lebanon (2019). Eyal’s video work is included in the 22nd Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil: Memory is an Edition Station, São Paulo (forthcoming October 2023); Rencontres Internationales, Paris; VITRINE x Kino Screenings, London; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah Art Foundation; and Cairo Video Festival, Medrar, Cairo. His works are in the collection of Kadist, Paris; Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah. Eyal earned an undergraduate degree from the Institute of Fine Arts, Baghdad (2015), he currently lives and works in Los Angeles.






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Born in 1994 in Baghdad, Iraq. Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA

Education

  • 2016 - 2017  | HWP/Home Workspace, Independent Study Program, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon.
  • 2011 - 2015   | Diploma, Institute of Fine Arts, Baghdad.

Solo Exhibitions 

2024
  • Retrieving an Obscured Present/Presence, Bellyman, LA, US.
  • From the Creases of my Eyelid, The Quebec City BiennIal, Quebec, CA
2022
Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
  • Undoing Images I, Akademie der künste, Colonge, DE
  • A new garden from old wounds, ChertLüdde, Berlin, DE.
  • Display, Ehrlich Steinberg, LA, US.
  • Babel, Sara’s Dukunsthalle, NYC.
  • Hope Dies Last, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, CA. 
  • The David Hammons, Frieze show, curated by Suzy Halajian, LA, US. 
  • Crystal Clear, Bayt AlMamzar, Dubai, UAE.

2023
  • 4.5 Billion Years, Brief Histories, NYC, US.
  • Surviving the Long Wars, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, US.
  • Archival Assebly #2 at the Betonhalle, silent green, Berlin، curated by Ala Youins and Maha Maamoun. How to know what's really happening. Berlin, DE.
  • 22nd Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil | "Memory is an Editing Station"
  • 15th Sharjah Biennale, curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, U.A.E.
2022 
  •  The 58th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, US.
  • Documenta 15 - Sada [regroup], Kassel, DE. ​
  • Crossings: Itineraries of Encounter, Blackwood Gallery. Toronto, CA.
  • How to maneuver: Shape-shifting texts and other publishing tactics, isdaT — Institute of arts and design of Toulouse. Curated by Ala Youins and Maha Maamoun | Toulouse, FR
2021
  • This Is Not Lebanon, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm. Curated by Matthias Lilienthal, Rabih Mroué, Christine Thomé (Ashkal Alwan), Anna Wagner (Künstlerhaus Mousonturm), Jaan Bossier, Uwe Dierksen, Christian Hommel (Ensemble Modern). Kuratorische Mitarbeit: Friederike Kötter | Frankfurt, DE.
  • Hamds, The Akademie der Künste. Curated by MADHUSREE DUTTA, ALA YOUNIS  | Cologne, DE .      

2020
  • Online screening. Aashra, Ashkal Alwan. Curated by Ashkal Alwan | Beirut, LB
  • Online exhibition. Triennale Tres Pesos, Mexico, MX City.
  • Online exhibtion. Viral Self-Portraits, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova | +MSUM, Slovenia, LJU
  • How to reappear: Through the quivering leaves of independent publishing, MMAG Foundation, Amman, JO
2019
  • How to maneuver: Shape-shifting texts and other publishing tactics, Warehouse 421, Abut Dhabi, UE, curated by Kayfa ta, Ala Youins and Maha Maamoun.
  • Screening, Kino, Bermondsey as part of VITRINE x Kino Screenings. London, UK ​
  • Screening, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin video library at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Berlin, DU
  • ​Screening, theme Less, time less, discipline less, form less. The James Black Gallery, Mexico, MX City.
  • Collective exhibition, Beirut Art Center. touché! (gestures, movement, action), Beirut, LB
  • Screening, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin video library
  • Screening, I am BP, King of Exploitation, King of Injustice, P21 Gallery, London, UK
  • Screening, Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UE

2018  
  • Screening, Immaterial Collection Forum IV: States of Being, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, LB
2017 
  • ​Audio piece, Collective Task, Baghdad, Baghdad, IQ
  • Open Studio, HWP 2016-17, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, LB

2015  
  • TARKIB Installation Exhibition, Baghdad, IQ
  • Group Show, 1010Hall The ARt House, Nicosia, CY
  • Build Peace conference, Nicosia, CY
  • 6th FIVAC, International Video Art Festival, Camaguey, CU.

2013 
  • Screening, Cairo Video Festival, Medrar, Cairo, EG
  • Al-Mutanabbi Street exhibition, Baghdad, IQ
  • ​Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. US.                        
  • Screening, Iraqi Independent Film Center, Baghdad, IQ

2011
  • Nakhla Gallery, Baghdad, IQ

Collections

2022

  • Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, FR 













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