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On 8th April 1961 the MV Dara, a ship carrying passengers between India, Pakistan and the Gulf, sank just off the port of Dubai. An estimated 238 people lost their lives. Some bodies were never found and relatives of the missing continue to this day to search for their loved ones. Stranger, a new project by photographer Olivia Arthur, imagines a survivor returning to Dubai fifty years later, and what they would see. Through photographs and small anecdotes, the viewer is taken on a journey through a city that is both awe-inspiring and alienating. A city which has grown at breath-taking pace from a population of 90,0000 in the 1960s to over 2 million in the current day, and continues to draw people from all over the world with its promise of riches. The backbone of the project is the story of the shipwreck, transporting the viewer back and forth in history and acting as a reminder of the fragility and skin-deep nature of Dubai. Reflecting this fragility and suggesting the feelings of loneliness and disorientation often experienced by residents of Dubai, the book is printed on transparent paper. The result is that the layered images fade in and out of view, interspersed with quotes, memories, and images of the shipwreck itself.
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Stranger
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Fishbar Books, 2015
ISBN 10: 0956995977
ISBN 13: 9780956995971
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Seller: Amsterdam Book Company, Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 26x 20cm., oblong, 110 sheets of semi-tranparancies (Zanders Spectral Snow Paper). Mixture of short notes (from conversations) and photographs. Art-project around the shipwrecking of the MV Dara. This project was the result of an artist residency with Cuadro Gallery Dubai. Edition of 1000. The book, with its continuing layering of text and pictures, serves as a body of art. Seller Inventory # ABE-001-09
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