Cecilia Vicuña’s Incomplete ElegySarah Jilaniartreview.com13 October 2022The Chilean artist’s Turbine Hall commission is an assertion of cultural resilience and ecological emergency – but leaves something to be desired
Work of the Week: Mona Hatoum’s ‘Kapan Iki’ (2012)Sarah Jilaniartreview.com28 July 2022The Lebanese-born Palestinian artist’s sculpture invites us to do away with false distinctions between the psychic and the political
David Graeber & David Wengrow’s History of Humanity Asks: When Did We Get Stuck?Sarah JilaniArtReview17 February 2022Why do we assume that we are more capable of critical inquiry, free will, imagination or cognitive skill than our ancient ancestors?
The Catharsis of Zehra Doğan’s Art Behind BarsSarah JilaniArtReview Asia09 June 2021‘In sexist discourses, the earth is personified as a woman’s body – something to be possessed. I draw and paint women who oppose this fate’
The Pioneering Anticolonial Feminism of Nawal El Saadawi (1931–2021)Sarah Jilaniartreview.com30 March 2021The late Egyptian author, activist and physician tirelessly exposed the intersections of patriarchy, religious fundamentalism, and Western neo-colonialism
What Turning Hagia Sophia into a Mosque Really MeansSarah Jilaniartreview.com17 July 2020The Eastern Orthodox church turned Ottoman mosque turned museum, has been weaponised according to the politics of the day for more than a millennium
Bahar Yürükoğlu Maybe I’d like to be like youSarah JilaniArtReview Asia05 July 2017The artist’s intervention asks us to reconnect with the earth
