But We Cannot See Them: Tracing a UAE Art Community, 1988-2008 Clothing Katja Novitskova

Katja Novitskova

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But We Cannot See Them: Tracing a UAE Art Community, 1988-2008 Clothing Katja NovitskovaIt centres on a group sometimes called "the five," at an intersection of visual artists, writers and filmmakers based in the UAE. Its members identified with a new culture of encouraging radical, formal and conceptual experimentation. Eventually, some of these artists founded the celebrated Flying House. But We Cannot See Them: Tracing a UAE Art Community, 1988 2008 was published in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition at New York University Abu