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Artistic Sovereignty in the Shadow of Post-Socialism: Egypt’s 20th Annual Youth Salon
Omnia El Shakry
While questions of creative sovereignty ( hurriyat al-ibda‛ ) tend to loom large in Egyptian academic writings, the artistic trajectory of the annual juried competition known as the Youth Salon has been marked, historically, by structural inertia. Established in 1989 by the Ministry of Culture, the exhibition was meant to encourage a new generation of Egyptian artists and increase their international visibility. 1 Jessica Winegar has explored the Salon as a “tournament of values” that is…
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2009
Category
Contemporary Art
Subjects
Middle East, Sovereignty, State & Government, Contemporaneity, Autonomy, Neoliberalism