{"id":22075,"date":"2026-11-05T10:25:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T10:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/nada-shabout-other-stories-still-little-known-reveal-the-major-contribution-of-arab-artists-to-modernism\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T10:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T10:26:15","slug":"nada-shabout-other-stories-still-little-known-reveal-the-major-contribution-of-arab-artists-to-modernism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/en\/nada-shabout-other-stories-still-little-known-reveal-the-major-contribution-of-arab-artists-to-modernism\/","title":{"rendered":"Nada Shabout:  \u201cOther stories, still little known, reveal the major contribution of Arab artists to modernism.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"22075\" class=\"elementor elementor-22075 elementor-22068\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-da43086 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"da43086\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-244cf3a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"244cf3a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Founded in 1951, the Baghdad Modern Art Group sought to forge an Iraqi artistic modernity at the intersection of local traditions and international avant-garde movements. At Mathaf in Doha, the exhibition <\/b><b><i>What Lingers in the Artist\u2019s Mind<\/i><\/b><b> traces the history and influence of this pioneering collective, whose archives have been partially scattered or destroyed by wars. An interview with the curator, art historian Nada Shabout.<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interview by Meryem Sebti<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d997667 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"d997667\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/17_303_Nada-Shabout142-e1754940222311.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-22070\" alt=\"Dr. Nada Shabout. Photo: Ahna Hubnik\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/17_303_Nada-Shabout142-e1754940222311.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/17_303_Nada-Shabout142-e1754940222311-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/17_303_Nada-Shabout142-e1754940222311-1024x965.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/17_303_Nada-Shabout142-e1754940222311-768x723.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Dr. Nada Shabout. Photo: Ahna Hubnik<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-065292f elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"065292f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8adeed3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8adeed3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Why is it important to revisit the Baghdad Modern Art Group today? How does the exhibition \u201cWhat Lingers in the Artist\u2019s Mind,\u201d which you curated, allow us to take a different look at Iraqi\u2014and, more broadly, Arab\u2014modernism?<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The group played a fundamental role in the emergence of Iraqi modernism, but it also allows us to better understand Arab modernism as a whole. While its name is relatively well known, its history and contributions are much less so. This exhibition, which reinterprets the two previous installments of the project titled \u201cAll Manner of Experiments,\u201d is the first major exhibition to place the collective in its historical context. It offers a look back at the group\u2019s formation, its evolution, its members, the challenges it faced, and the influence it exerted on subsequent generations.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exhibition traces the group\u2019s development through the works of its two leading figures (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jawad Saleem and Shakir Hassan Al Said, ed.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and the contributions of its founding members. It also traces the evolution of the group\u2019s membership during its first decade of existence, as well as the efforts to continue its work following the untimely death of Jawad Saleem.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also explores the relationships that bound these artists together\u2014as friends, colleagues, and teachers\u2014and which have fostered the transmission of their ideas to the present day, notably through the \u201c1980s generation\u201d of Iraqi artists in the diaspora, followed by the reconnection of contemporary generations in the diaspora with Iraq. It is precisely the group\u2019s emphasis on experimentation\u2014in an environment conducive to the development of an ever-evolving aesthetic\u2014that explains the richness and enduring nature of its educational legacy. As for our understanding of Arab modernism, this exhibition offers a concrete example, a discourse, and new aesthetic perspectives.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ef0a12d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ef0a12d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>The exhibition draws not only on artworks, but also on archival materials, research, and what has been lost or remains untraceable. How do these absences influence the way you tell this story?<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exhibition takes into account the consequences of the wars and political instability in Iraq, as well as the resulting loss of archival materials. These losses have significantly hindered our ability to reconstruct the group\u2019s history as a whole. We often have only fragmentary accounts, written in Arabic by Shakir Hassan Al Said and by one of the group\u2019s leading advocates, the Palestinian critic Jabra Ibrahim Jabra.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This exhibition can therefore be interpreted as much through the way it engages with these absences and fragments of history as through the works and archival documents on display. The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 resulted in considerable\u2014and in some cases irreversible\u2014cultural destruction, as well as the dismantling of institutions. The consequences were devastating for Iraq and its people and, in the context of this exhibition, for the visual arts.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dbe7ab3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"dbe7ab3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>This is the third phase of a research project presented successively at Bard, NYU Abu Dhabi, and now at Mathaf. What does the Mathaf collection allow you to contribute or reconsider? And how has the exhibition evolved across these different contexts?<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mathaf collection, which is the world\u2019s largest collection of modern Iraqi art, allows me to significantly deepen and broaden the scope of the two previous versions of the exhibition.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It brings together not only a much larger selection of major works by the group\u2019s two leading figures, its co-founders Jawad Saleem and Shakir Hassan Al Said, but also works by other members of the collective and by artists belonging to the groups that succeeded them in the 1960s and 1970s. This allows me to fill in some gaps in the narrative of Iraqi modernism.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The research I conducted for these three exhibitions allowed me to explore broader time periods, delve deeper into certain aspects of art history, and include new artists in order to convey the many exchanges, dialogues, collaborations, and tensions that existed among them.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This work also led me to reexamine certain established narratives through the direct study of the artworks. In this regard, being able to bring together such a rich collection of Iraqi artworks in a single space is a rare opportunity.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f48164a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f48164a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>What audiences do you hope to reach with this exhibition? Beyond specialists already familiar with Iraqi modernism, how can this history resonate with younger generations and a broader audience in Doha and throughout the region today?<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As an art historian, I hope this exhibition will help challenge dominant narratives about the formation of modernism, foster a better understanding of Iraqi modernism, and, more broadly, to renew the narrative of modern art history by giving other voices their rightful place as equally legitimate forms of knowledge.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I also hope that visitors from around the world, whether experts or not, will be able to discover and appreciate magnificent works of art. I would like them to leave with a different image of Baghdad and Iraq.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In particular, this story can show younger generations in Doha and the region that there are other major narratives\u2014still largely unknown\u2014in which Arab artists played a vital role in the development of modernism. It also serves as a reminder that art has always held an important place in modern Arab cultures.<\/span><\/p><p><b>\u201cWhat Lingers in the Artist\u2019s Mind: Experiments and Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group,\u201d Mathaf Doha, through February 6, 2027. <\/b><\/p> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founded in 1951, the Baghdad Modern Art Group sought to forge an Iraqi artistic modernity at the intersection of local traditions and international avant-garde movements. 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