Dan Jakubowski is an independent scholar who writes about contemporary visual culture in Africa and the Middle East. He lived in Cairo for three years, where he researched his dissertation exploring Egyptian video art and its reception in a globalized art world.
On 3 recent solo exhibitions of Wael Shawky’s work in Germany, Denmark and Italy
Mecca Journeys captures the the marked dichotomies of Mecca’s recent explosive growth
Strange marginal curiosities can help us detect a larger truth like the bending light around a black hole
The Egyptian artist's Composition in a Public Park won the Silver Lion at this year's Venice Biennale
Encountering abominations with gaiety, interrogating the body’s openness dominance by outside forces
Dan Jakubowski navigates institutional ethics and painfully human art
