Sana Gallery is a
contemporary art gallery in
Singapore focused on Middle Eastern art.
Sana Gallery was founded in 2012 by
Assaad W. Razzouk
Assaad Wajdi Razzouk (born in 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a Lebanese-British clean-energy entrepreneur, author, podcaster and commentator.
Biography
Razzouk is Chief Executive Officer of Gurīn Energy, which he co-founded in 2021. Gurīn Ener ...
, the British-Lebanese clean energy and climate change entrepreneur.
The gallery was officially opened on October 25, 2012, as the first Middle Eastern contemporary art gallery in South East Asia, with an exhibition of works by the Syrian artist Thaer Maarouf and the Syrian-Lebanese painter Semaan Khawam in a show entitled ''Kisses of an Enemy''.
Sana Gallery showcases "I Read I Write," an exhibition by Palestinian photographer
Laura Boushnak
Laura Boushnak ( ar, لورا بشناق; born 1976) is a Kuwaiti-born Palestinian photographer whose work is focused on women, literacy, and education reform in the Arab world. For her ongoing documentary project "I Read I Write" she photograph ...
, from June 19 to July 28, 2013. The exhibition shows portraits of Arab women committed to becoming literate, each with a poignant story of how she came to read and write, are initially manipulated by superimposing written sentences in the subjects' own hand.
Previous exhibitions included "Carnaval of Darwiches" (March 14-April 28, 2013) by Lebanese artist Raouf Rifai, "Ordinary Lives" (December 5, 2012 – January 27, 2013) by Lebanese-American photographer
Rania Matar
Rania Matar (born 1964) is a Lebanese/Palestinian/American Documentary photography, documentary, Portrait photography, portrait and Fine-art photography, fine art photographer. She photographs the daily lives of girls and women in the Middle Ea ...
who presented photographs of teenage girls in the intimacy of their bedrooms, some veiled and some not, in images that challenge stereotypes about Middle Eastern women.
Projects
Sana Gallery serves as a platform to showcase young Middle Eastern talent in
Singapore to South East Asia, India and China.
Sana Gallery's projects include exhibitions anchored around artists’ commissions, installations, artists’ talks and performances.
The gallery also offers a temporary residence in Singapore for emerging artists to immerse themselves in the local and regional culture and benefit from the resources available to art and artists in Singapore and in South East Asia.
References
External links
''Sana Gallery''''Al Hayat''''Al Mustaqbal''
{{coord missing, Singapore
Contemporary art galleries in Asia
Art museums and galleries in Singapore
Arts in Singapore