Borderland | Alia Ali
A solo exhibition by multi-media artist Alia Ali, BORDERLAND is a series of portraits that questions the barriers which divide and unite us, all at once. The characters in Ali’s portraits, called “-cludes”, are swathed in layers of fabric from eleven different regions of the world. The fabric as a borderland becomes a territory of exploration where the mysterious becomes apparent, restraint becomes freedom, and illusion becomes reality.
Alia Ali (Austria, 1985) isa Yemeni-Bosnian-American multi-media artist. She is a graduate of theUnited World College of the Atlantic (UWCAC) and holds a BA in Studio Art andMiddle Eastern Studies from Wellesley College. Her recent work has beenfeatured at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, PhotoNOLA, the Marrakech Biennaleas part of the Swiss-Moroccan KE’CH Collective, and PhotoLondon 2016 as part ofthe LensCulture Exposure Awards. Most recently, she was awarded the Alice C.Cole '42 Grant of Wellesley College, LensCulture’s Emerging Talent Awards 2016and Gold Winner in the Fine Art Category of the Tokyo International FotoAwards.
