Landmarks

A solo exhibition spanning more than two decades of photographic and moving image work and focusing on Al-Ani's longstanding interest in the disappearance of the body in highly charged and contested landscapes.

Marking the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War, an event that casts a long shadow over Al-Ani's practice, Landmarks highlights preoccupations that have persisted over time and continue to reverberate throughout this distinctive body of work.

From The Visit (2004), a multi-channel installation featuring intimate recollections of love and loss set against the desert landscape of the Middle East, to Black Powder Peninsula (2016), an aerial film focusing on the English landscape, including sites rich with the remains of British military, naval and industrial history.

The exhibition also highlights Al-Ani’s latest film Sounds of War II (2023) combining subtly animated archival images with contemporary aerial photographs of the ghostly footprints of US airfields across rural East Anglia that were decommissioned after the end of the Second World War.

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