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Rahel Aima

Rahel Aima is a writer based in Dubai. She is an associate editor at Momus and editor of BXD: The Postwestern Review.

Features, Reviews• November 3, 2020

An Insipid Blame Game: Tony Cokes and the Monotony of Art About Trump

By Rahel Aima

Over the past four decades, Tony Cokes has perfected the art of the social justice slideshow. His video essays pair appropriated text with corporate…

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Reviews• July 6, 2020

Depleting Felix Gonzalez-Torres

By Rahel Aima

In recent weeks, piles of fortune cookies materialized around the world – in art spaces, restaurants, and private homes in Dubai, Beijing, Montevideo, and…

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Artists in Isolation Series, Features• April 14, 2020

Artists in Isolation: Wafaa Bilal’s “Domestic Tension”

By Rahel Aima

In 2007 Wafaa Bilal locked himself inside a Chicago gallery. He lived there alone for a month, using a webcam to broadcast around the…

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Reviews• July 16, 2019

Firing Blanks: Hito Steyerl and the Voiding of Research Art

By Rahel Aima

We’ve all heard the statistics. That in America, there is a mass shooting every day, that one hundred Americans die from gun violence daily,…

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Features, Reviews• October 17, 2018

An Exhibit in an Email: Vimeo Links, PR, and Posturing by Proxy

By Rahel Aima

The night is dark and full of texture. And somewhere, over an indeterminate stretch of inky sea, the sky is lit up with red…

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Reviews• February 7, 2018

“Afrogallonism” Takes Dubai: South-South Solidarity and the Urge to Exoticize

By Rahel Aima

Yellow’s a strange cornstarch slurry of a word, one that quickly gets thick on the tongue and loses all meaning. Its symbolism oscillates wildly,…

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Reviews• June 7, 2017

The Center Holds: Bruce High Quality Foundation’s Accidental Gulf Nativism

By Rahel Aima

Every first of May, as people around the world take to the streets to commemorate labor struggles, members of France’s Front National party (FN)…

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