BSL Tour – Wael Shawky at Talbot Rice Gallery
Duration: 1 hour
Meeting Point: Entrance of Talbot Rice Gallery on the ground floor
Price: Free
Accessibility:
Join Trudi Collier for a deaf-led BSL tour of the exhibition Wael Shawky. There will be a BSL interpreter present.
The tour lasts one hour. Please meet us at the entrance of Talbot Rice Gallery on the ground floor, at the bottom of the stairs. We will be waiting next to a BSL tour sign.
Wael Shawky’s penetrating film installations explore histories that have shaped our world. Intricately created sets and painted environments become host to exquisitely crafted and costumed characters, who perform versions of history connected to conflicts that continue to rage around us. Across Shawky’s Cabaret Crusades series and the recent Drama 1882 (created for the Egyptian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024), Shawky reopens the narrative of the series of religious wars known as the Crusades, from an Arab perspective.
He also highlights the events leading up to the British occupation of Egypt in 1882, destabilising any singular authority by embracing the irregular, subjective and contradictory accounts that more authentically represent the formation of history.
If you have specific accessibility needs, please let us know when you register or contact the team at info.talbotrice@ed.ac.uk to discuss further.