This update sees found images that relate to the initial research seen in Version 1. Due to copyright and accessibility issues, only certain elements from found photographs were traced; mainly elements that made their holding images absolutely needed for this project. These are part of a larger collection of similar photos and tracings that are accumulating in the course of the research. They mark points on a timeline that takes the function of a story board.
About the artist
Ala Younis is an artist and curator. Born in Kuwait, based in Amman, graduated as an Architect from University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan in 1997. Younis's artistic practice is engaged in the reinterpretation of inherited narratives, by way of research-based sociopolitical investigations deeply explored in concurrence with personal experience. Through art, film and publication projects, she unfolds the conditions under which collective historical and political collapses can become personal ones. Her work was shown in: Tea with Nefertiti, Mathaf and Institut du Monde Arabe (2012-13), ROUNDTABLE, 9th Gwangju Biennial (2012); The Ungovernables, New Museum Triennial, New York (2012); 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011); Home Works '5, Beirut (2010); The Jerusalem Show, Jerusalem (2009), and PhotoCairo 4, Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo (2008). In 2012 she was selected by ArtReview as one of the art world's 'Future Greats 2012', and her publication projects 'Needles to Rockets' (2009), and 'Tin Soldiers' (2012) are collaborative art publications that involved in its making individuals from different backgrounds.