Nur: Jamelie Hassan’s History of the Present

Volume 15, Number 1, January/February 2016
by Julian Haladyn


Article Description

In this essay, Julian Haladyn discusses the work of Jamelie Hassan, a Canadian artist whose work was featured in the 2014 exhibition Transformation of Canadian Landscape Art: Inside and Outside of Being at the Xi’an art Museum, and how Hassan brings into the present a historical relationship between Xi’an, Istanbul, and Cairo in her site-specific installation for the library of the Great Mosque of Xi’an.


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Julian Haladyn, Jamelie Hassan, 2014, Transformation of Canadian Landscape Art: Inside and Outside of Being, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, Istanbul, Cairo, site-specific installation, Great Mosque of Xi’an