Patterns, Costumes & Stencils – Chant Avedissian art research special edition the Chaire de l’Institut du

the Chaire de l’Institut du Monde Arabe (2003)

Oraib Toukan presents an informal register of modernist Palestinian architecture—an assemblage of images and stories collected from 2013 to 2015 in the cities of Nablus

Costumes & Stencils is a reflection of the diverse peoples

and covering the period from pre-1900 to the end of the twentieth century

and their collocation with today’s environment

Patterns, Costumes & Stencils – Chant Avedissian art research special edition the Chaire de l’Institut duPatterns, Costumes & Stencils is a reflection of the diverse peoples, cultures, and traditions that have influenced Chant Avedissian's work, from the colorful textiles of Rajasthan and the glazed bricks of Samarkand to Egyptian magazine covers from the 1960s. Avedissian is an artist who continues to provoke through his iconoclastic images that probe ideas of consumerism, art and propaganda, creativity and copyright, and tradition and modernity.