Overview
Phantom Punch: Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia in Lewiston is the first exhibition in New England of work by Saudi artists. This multifaceted project includes a significant exhibition of leading and emerging Saudi artists, as well as a series of lectures, visiting artists, and performances, story-telling and other pop-up events that create timely cross-cultural dialogue on campus and in the surrounding communities. In America, very little is known about contemporary Saudi art and artists. Media accounts of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are frighteningly predictable – deserts, camels, and oil, rich sheikhs, oppressed women, and terrorists. With this exhibition, we have a rare opportunity to gain critical new perspectives on Saudi society and culture from a group of perceptive young artists who are challenging conventions and exploring the limits of what is possible in Saudi culture.
Media
Phantom Punch: Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia in Lewiston
Museum’s ‘Phantom Punch’ is Among First in U.S. to Present Contemporary Saudi Artists
Phantom Punch: The Saudi Art Show America Didn’t See Coming
Phantom Punch: Contemporary Saudi Art in Lewiston
See ‘Phantom Punch’ on the Bates College website
