Exhibitions at The Street Gallery, IAIS

The Street Gallery is part of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and exhibits material culture and art with relevance to its academic interests, namely the Arab World, Middle East and Islam.

Current exhibition

 Making Plans for Friday

11 May – 24 August 2012

Works by local artist Oliver Flexman will be shown in The Street Gallery and at the Exeter Phoenix Gallery (20 July – 31 August). The exhibition explores our relationship with the Arab world through a combination of video, print, drawing, painting and stickers and offers an opportunity to view works which question the stereotypes  that govern our perception and engagement with the Arab World.  Making Plans for Friday

Contact us

If you would like any information about exhibitions at the Institute of Arab and Islamic studies, please contact:

Jane Clark (Manager)
The Street Gallery
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
University of Exeter
Stocker Road
Exeter
EX4 4ND
United Kingdom

Email jane.clark@exeter.ac.uk

Future exhibitions

Algeria(s) in France: a journey through identity

3 October - 16 November 2012

2012 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Algerian War of Independence, a bloody eight-year conflict between France and Algeria which marked the loosening of France’s colonial hold on North Africa and a new era of self-determination for Algeria. Leïla Sebbar, a contemporary novelist and photographer, is half Algerian and half French (Algerian by her father, French by her mother), and embodies the uneasy tryst between the two countries that has been characterised by violence and a deliberate ‘amnesia’ surrounding the ignominious events of the Algerian War. This exhibition offers, for the first time in the UK and in this important anniversary year, a snapshot of her photo-diary, as she attempts to negotiate her troubled history, and locate her personal story and experience within a historical and social context.

Islam, Trade and Politics Across the Indian Ocean

12 January - 31 March 2012

A travelling photographic exhibition produced by the British Library for ASEASUK and BIAA, supported by the British Academy