Where the Rivers Meet

Print

Purdue University Galleries

Name/Title

Where the Rivers Meet

Entry/Object ID

2009.03.027

Type of Print

Linocut, Inkjet

Artwork Details

Medium

Paper, Glue

Acquisition

Accession

2009.03

Source or Donor

May Hariri Aboutaam

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Mary Hariri Aboutaam

Made/Created

Artist

Nada Shalaby

Date made

2008

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Linocut

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Relief

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Dimensions

Height

16 in

Width

11 in

Exhibition

Re-interpreting the Middle East II: Artists Re-thinking Today's Terminology (2009)

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

Where the Rivers Meet Nada Shalaby Linocut and Inkjet, 2008 Nada Shalaby is an Egyptian-American artist who was born in Cairo. She has lived and worked in several major cities including Cairo, Chicago and most recently New York. Her practice consists of installations, performance, social engagement and the creation of fictitious archives and research materials. Shalaby’s work looks at the topography of language and their associating cultural aspects within the public sphere. Where the Rivers Meet explores the convergence of East and West, overlaying the confluence of two rivers, the Nile representing Cairo, Egypt and the Mississippi representing Cairo in Southern Illinois; locations far removed from each other but connected through name and flowing water.