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Cabaret Crusades: The Secrets of Karbala
2015
Glass figures make religious and military history beautiful, fragile and estranged.
Artist field note
Wael Shawky
History is retold until its authority begins to crack.
Appears inMiddle East & North Africa
The five in one idea
Shawky uses theatrical artifice to show that history is always performed from a position.