David Graeber & David Wengrow’s History of Humanity Asks: When Did We Get Stuck?Sarah JilaniArtReview17 February 2022Why do we assume that we are more capable of critical inquiry, free will, imagination or cognitive skill than our ancient ancestors?
The Catharsis of Zehra Doğan’s Art Behind BarsSarah JilaniArtReview Asia09 June 2021‘In sexist discourses, the earth is personified as a woman’s body – something to be possessed. I draw and paint women who oppose this fate’
The Pioneering Anticolonial Feminism of Nawal El Saadawi (1931–2021)Sarah Jilaniartreview.com30 March 2021The late Egyptian author, activist and physician tirelessly exposed the intersections of patriarchy, religious fundamentalism, and Western neo-colonialism
What Turning Hagia Sophia into a Mosque Really MeansSarah Jilaniartreview.com17 July 2020The Eastern Orthodox church turned Ottoman mosque turned museum, has been weaponised according to the politics of the day for more than a millennium
Bahar Yürükoğlu Maybe I’d like to be like youSarah JilaniArtReview Asia05 July 2017The artist’s intervention asks us to reconnect with the earth
Ayşe Erkmen Kıpraşım RippleSarah JilaniArtReview20 June 2017In a space born of gentrification, the artist laments her hometown’s transformation
Variations on ‘An Andalusian Dog’Sarah Jilani19 November 20159 July – 18 August 2015, X-ist, Istanbul
