Before History catalogues the exhibition for the Abraaj Group Art Prize 2015, which includes a new body of work by Yto Barrada, the winner of the prize, and existing work by shortlisted artists Sarnath Banerjee, Setareh Shahbazi, and Mounira Al Solh. The exhibition explores the layering of time through historical artifice. History here is considered as a constructed sphere, constantly in flux, simultaneously being buried and excavated.

This book is the fourth volume in Vincent Meessen’s publication series “Prospectus” and published following the artist’s solo exhibitions at WIELS and Centre Pompidou. The book is structured around the installations that made up these shows, and are placed in parallel with untold histories of the Situationist International, modernity’s last international avant-garde.

Providing an important platform for new and ambitious work from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, the ninth installment of the Abraaj Group Art Prize features “seepage/ritual,” an exhibition with the work of winner Rana Begum and the three short-listed artists: Sarah Abu Abdallah, Doa Aly, and Raha Raissnia. This publication is conceived as a parallel exhibition in book form.

Future Imperfect critically examines the role played by cultural institutions in producing present-day and future contexts for the production, dissemination, and reception of contemporary art in the Middle East and North Africa.

The catalogue Higher Atlas/Au-delà de l’Atlas, published on the occasion of the Marrakech Biennale [4], frames the biennial in a historical and theoretical context.