n Archaeology of New Media Arts in the Arab World. Bringing together more than 70 works by 40‑plus artists, the show charts the evolution of new‑media practice across the region.
Al Najjar’s interdisciplinary practice—spanning sculpture, CGI animation, video, sound, painting, writing, and curatorial projects—recontextualises artefacts, material culture, and archival imagery through an absurdist‑alien lens. By cultivating defamiliarisation and the uncanny, he opens fresh anthropological and material enquiries into simulation, post‑production, “poor images,” counter‑futurisms, and other postmodern conditions.
His contribution to Maknana resonates with the exhibition’s core question: how have Arab artists navigated, repurposed, and sometimes subverted technology to forge new visual vocabularies?
Maknana unfolds across four thematic constellations—Automation, Autonomy, Ripples, and Glitch—mapping recurring artistic impulses across generations, geographies, and technological paradigms. Within this framework, Al Najjar’s work explores the critical and speculative possibilities that arise when material heritage collides with digital futurity.
Al Najjar’s interdisciplinary practice—spanning sculpture, CGI animation, video, sound, painting, writing, and curatorial projects—recontextualises artefacts, material culture, and archival imagery through an absurdist‑alien lens. By cultivating defamiliarisation and the uncanny, he opens fresh anthropological and material enquiries into simulation, post‑production, “poor images,” counter‑futurisms, and other postmodern conditions.
His contribution to Maknana resonates with the exhibition’s core question: how have Arab artists navigated, repurposed, and sometimes subverted technology to forge new visual vocabularies?
Maknana unfolds across four thematic constellations—Automation, Autonomy, Ripples, and Glitch—mapping recurring artistic impulses across generations, geographies, and technological paradigms. Within this framework, Al Najjar’s work explores the critical and speculative possibilities that arise when material heritage collides with digital futurity.
