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Anna Boghiguian: The Sunken Boat

Anna Boghiguian, The Square, the Line and the Ruelr. Ambiguous Philosophers / Ambiguous Politicians. Installation view, Anna Boghiguian, mumok, Vienna, 2021. Courtesy the artist and mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Leihgabe der Österreichischen Ludwig-Stiftung

Rendezvous, Margate CT9 1HG, United Kingdom

There could hardly be a more fitting arena for Anna Boghiguian’s larger-than-life works than Turner Contemporary in Margate, the David Chipperfield-designed gallery inspired by J. M. W. Turner’s life and work. Just as Turner depicted the rubiconic atmosphere of the Industrial Revolution in paintings such as his 1839 “darling,” The Fighting Temeraire, Boghiguian’s work grapples with its lasting aftershocks. One of Egypt’s foremost contemporary artists, she works across artistic mediums to create monumental paper-doll figures that draw a through line from the colonial past to current geopolitical and ecological turmoil. —Victoria Herman

Photo: Anna Boghiguian