Emily Jacir, a star is as far as the eye can see and as near as my eye is to me
By: edited by Eline van der Vlist
Contributors: Vlist, Eline van der, editor; Dārat al-Funūn (Amman, Jordan)
Publisher: Darat al Funun-Khalid Shoman Foundation
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Amman, Jordan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9789082148411
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: Star is as far as the eye can see and as near as my eye is to me
Work titles: Works
Description: Since the early 1990s, Emily Jacir has created works about transformation, questions of translation, resistance, and the logic of the archive. With restrained formal means she makes visible silenced historical narratives, with a focus on her own political, historical, and social relationships. The book presents a fully illustrated survey of her oeuvre, including film and video works, installations, interventions, audio works, and sculpture. From 'Change/Exchange' (1998) to 'Untitled (SOLIDARIDAD)' (2013), the book contains reproductions of key works such as 'ex libris' (2010-2012), commissioned for dOCUMENTA (13), as well as several rarely seen works.
Notes: Published on occasion of an exhibition held at Dārat al-Funūn, 2014.

In English and Arabic.
Table of contents: title: Emily Jacir at Darat al Funun / Eline van der Vlist; title: Stages of absence and reappearance / Adila Laïdi-Hanieh; title: Emily Jacir - Main building. ENTRY DENIED (a concert in Jerusalem); stazione; Change/Exchange; from Amman to Bethlehem (contraband); ex libris; Lydda Airport; Blue House. Today, there are four million of us; title: Exercises on the right to narrate and remember / Ahmad Zatari; title: The aesthetics of disappearance: A conversation with Emily Jacir on the occasion of her exhibition at Darat al Funun A star is as far as the eye can see and and near as my eye is to me / Yazid Anani; title: Emily Jacir - Beit al Beiruti. a sketch in the Egyptian Museum, April 24, 2003, Cairo; from Paris to Riyadh (drawings for my mother) November 1977; Bank Mirror II; future Israeli stamps; Untitled (servees); XMAS Intervention (from the XMAS Project); linz diary; Bethlehem street corner; Everywhere/Nowhere; Al-Riyadh Projects; Nothing will happen (eight normal Saturdays in Linz); Untitled (SOLIDARIDAD); Untitled (Kosovo/Bahgdad...according to NATO); SEXY SEMITE; Ghorfa. Tel al Zaatar; Print Studios. Crossing Surda (a record of going to and from work); Outside murals. AP 237 from ex libris; AP 3852 from ex libris; AP 4988 from ex libris.