Fathi Hassan: Shifting Sands

The Sunderland Collection will inaugurate its Art Programme at No.9 Cork Street with 'Fathi Hassan: Shifting Sands', an exhibition by Cairo-born, Edinburgh-based artist Fathi Hassan. Created in response to items from The Sunderland Collection, a private collection of rare antique world and celestial maps, the exhibition will engage with the experience of migration, dislocation, diasporic identity and shifting notions of heritage. Hassan uses maps as a lens, incorporating motifs and images that have recurred throughout his practice and drawing in new influences such as thinkers and creatives who have had a global influence on science or culture across borders.

Fathi Hassan gained prominence as an artist in the 1980s and was among the first African and Arab artists to exhibit at the Venice Art Biennale in 1988. His work is held in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum and the British Museum in the UK; the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Williams College Museum of Art, Clark Museum, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University and the...

Fathi Hassan gained prominence as an artist in the 1980s and was among the first African and Arab artists to exhibit at the Venice Art Biennale in 1988. His work is held in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum and the British Museum in the UK; the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Williams College Museum of Art, Clark Museum, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University and the Texas Southern University Museum in the USA; the Fondazione Fausto Radici, Flash Art Museum and Symphonia S.G.R Milan in Italy; The Farjam Collection and Barjeel Art Foundation in the UAE; and the Museum of Modern Egyptian Art in Egypt.