- Title
- Basic Instinct
- Date Made
- 2008
- Medium
- Archival print on cotton paper
- Dimensions
- 43 5/16 × 55 1/8 in. (110 × 140 cm);
Frame: 49 7/16 × 61 × 1 3/16 in. (125.5 × 155 × 3 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2013.39.4
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Contemporary
- Curatorial Notes
Ammar Al Beik is a conceptual artist and filmmaker. In these four photographs, Al Beik, like the better known Akram Zaatari, makes use of old archival and found photographs, which he partially obscures and recontextualizes. As a frame, Al Beik uses wildly chromatic thumbnail depictions of ancient goddesses displayed in the National Museum. His interest in the circulation of images has to do with the manipulation of memories and their impact on current political/religious divisions.
