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Date(s) - 03/19/2025 - 12/31/2025
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March 19, 2022 – Dec. 31, 2025
Under the AANM Dome
الفلق // al-Falaq by Alia Ali is a site-specific multimedia sculpture
A “museum within a museum” in the form of a Yemeni Futurist Starship named الفلق // al-Falaq, this starship is a manifestation of actively reclaiming looted Yemeni artifacts housed in famous collections in Europe and the U.S. It takes on the form of an octopus sculpture suspended under the AANM dome, with 81 digital screens along the tentacles, displaying a range of experimental videos. The result is an impressive constellation of multi-channel video installations that move vertically across the multiple stories of the Museum’s atrium. The content of the videos embraces a variety of objects, ideas and heritage that الفلق // al-Falaq takes back from Earth to carry into the galaxy towards the Red Star. This notion comes at a moment in time where Yemen is experiencing its seventh year of war and on Earth where there are less and less places for Yemenis to move and exist. By investigating histories of the distant past, Ali addresses the realities of the dystopian present in order to carve out spaces for radically imagined possibilities of the future in what has evolved to be Yemeni Futurism.