Written by: Ashley Alleluya Photography by: Salman Moghaddam “The woman in Kuwait today is no longer willing to be merely objectified,” I was told by an artist’s manager who was presenting at the HUB Gallery, as the sun set on a Tuesday evening. She may as well summarize...
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Written by: Ashley Alleluya Photography by: Mohammad Bastaki Thump, thump, thump. Beneath the sounds of daily traffic, the weekly grind of work and back, the frantic conversations placating colleagues, friends and family, exists another layer of sound heard around Kuwait. It's a heartbeat that has perhaps always been...
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Read MoreWritten by: Ashley Alleluya Video by: Miniature Malekpour If you've lived for any amount of time in Kuwait, you'd have experienced a sense of being in-between. Existing between the world of entitlement and earning as an expatriate. Between the guidelines of freedom and caution as a woman...
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Written by Ashley Alleluya "I'm excited to watch some magic happen tonight," someone told me as we hung out at the Kingdome Lounge on the top floor of the Artspace studio for the first St. Spray Soup of 2017. Held on a beautiful Saturday evening, the event...
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Written by Ashley Alleluya Let me come clean right now – I don't consider myself a hip-hop expert; I'm not even a hip-hop beginner. I know a handful of artists and songs who've broken through the genre, but I've never felt the need to listen to...
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Written by: Ashley Alleluya Photography by: Fay Al Homoud It was one of those freakishly artsy nights in Kuwait. For a country that is often bemused at the lack of cultural choices on the weekend, we had a Saturday night that proved otherwise. Two events celebrating music,...
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Written by: Ashley Alleluya Photography by: Aziz Mutawa When Contemporary Art Platform (CAP) decides to showcase an artist, you make it your mission to attend. In the short time that I‘ve been exposed to the art scene here in Kuwait, I’ve noticed that CAP will endorse those...
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Written by: Ashley Alleluya Photography by: Abdulaziz Safar Ali Numb. Not even comfortably. So it was less Pink Floyd and more Linkin Park. The icy cold was all I focused on as I arrived at this year’s edition of Art Night Out by Visual Therapy. It was going...
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