HADEER OMAR:
CONTEMPORARY HERITAGE:
AND THEREAFTER
AL KOOT FORT, DOHA
24 MARCH - 30 MAY, 2021
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Time-based media artist Hadeer Omar has created a contemporary response to the Al Koot Fort, which holds a unique and complex history since its construction in 1906. The artist draws upon the area surrounding the fort and uses Souq Waqif and the Msheireb district as sources of inspiration, weaving together traditional and contemporary aspects of daily life, translating and transforming them into surreal immersive environments.
HADEER OMAR:
CONTEMPORARY HERITAGE:
AND THEREAFTER
AL KOOT FORT, DOHA
24 MARCH - 30 MAY, 2021
BOOK NOW
Time-based media artist Hadeer Omar has created a contemporary response to the Al Koot Fort, which holds a unique and complex history since its construction in 1906. The artist draws upon the area surrounding the fort and uses Souq Waqif and the Msheireb district as sources of inspiration, weaving together traditional and contemporary aspects of daily life, translating and transforming them into surreal immersive environments.
A CONVERSATION WITH PENNY MARTIN:
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF - THE GENTLEWOMAN
TUESDAY, 4 MAY, 2021
8PM DOHA/6PM U.K.
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The founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Gentlewoman magazine, Penny Martin, joins Tasweer’s Artistic Director, Charlotte Cotton for a conversation about Penny’s journey from her beginnings as a curator of photography, to Editor of the groundbreaking SHOWstudio.com to her creation of The Gentlewoman magazine.
ABOUT PENNY MARTIN AND THE GENTLEWOMAN:
For over 7 years, Penny was the Editor of the online creative platform SHOWstudio.com - founded by image-maker Nick Knight - where she innovated in creating the benchmarks for interactive, live, and in-motion fashion image encounters. In 2010, Penny launched the biannual magazine The Gentlewoman - the “sister” publication to Jop van Bennekom and Gert Jonkers’ Fantastic Man. The Gentlewoman has trailblazed the re-animation of magazines for women, with its ambitious journalism and intelligent imagery and design. With its virtual actions and library at thegentlewoman.com and the regular meetings of the global The Gentlewoman Club - where real women, real events and real things are enjoyed - The Gentlewoman chronicles and celebrates women’s creativity and purposeful actions.
