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Camar Cande’s Journey, 2010-2011, installation, video, 151 watercolour paintings between 30.6x23.2cm and 32.5x24.2cm, 1 watercolour painting: 64.6x256.5cm Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation, Installation view, photo by Alfredo Rubio
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Camar Cande’s Journey, 2010-2011, installation, video, 151 watercolour paintings between 30.6x23.2cm and 32.5x24.2cm, 1 watercolour painting: 64.6x256.5cm Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation, Installation view, photo by Plamen Galabov
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Camar Cande’s Journey, 2010-2011, installation, video, 151 watercolour paintings between 30.6x23.2cm and 32.5x24.2cm, 1 watercolour painting: 64.6x256.5cm Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation, Installation view, photo by Plamen Galabov
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Camar Cande’s Journey, 2010-2011, installation, video, 151 watercolour paintings between 30.6x23.2cm and 32.5x24.2cm, 1 watercolour painting: 64.6x256.5cm Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation, Installation view, photo by Plamen Galabov
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Camar Cande’s Journey, 2010-2011, installation, video, 151 watercolour paintings between 30.6x23.2cm and 32.5x24.2cm, 1 watercolour painting: 64.6x256.5cm Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation, Installation view, photo by Alfredo Rubio
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Camar Cande’s Journey, 2010-2011, installation, video, 151 watercolour paintings between 30.6x23.2cm and 32.5x24.2cm, 1 watercolour painting: 64.6x256.5cm Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation, Installation view, photo by Alfredo Rubio
Camar Cande’s Journey, 2010-2011, installation, video, 151 watercolour paintings between 30.6x23.2cm and 32.5x24.2cm, 1 watercolour painting: 64.6x256.5cm Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation, courtesy of the artist
Project Description
Camar Cande’s Journey chronicles a trek Abdullah Al Saadi took through the northern region of the United Arab Emirates and Oman. Accompanied by a donkey named Camar Cande and a dog, the trio walked through the mountainous terrain, documenting the landscape in photographs, video and watercolour paintings. When translated literally from Arabic, Camar Cande means ‘White Sugar’. The name also plays on the word Samarkand, evoking literary tales of travel and adventure. Fellow performers in this journey through time and landscape, the animals coloured Al Saadi’s visual impressions with a kind of spirituality generated by their unmediated relationship to the land and its elements.
April 2011
This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 10
