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Jayce Salloum: Bamiyan at the ROM

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Jayce Salloum and Khadim Ali “دلِ که سوز ندارد, دلِ نیست Bamiyan (the heart that has no love/pain/generosity is not a heart)” 2010 Installation view Courtesy Jayce Salloum and SAVAC / photo Toni Hafkenscheid Jayce Salloum and Khadim Ali “دلِ که سوز ندارد, دلِ نیست Bamiyan (the heart that has no love/pain/generosity is not a heart)” 2010 Installation view Courtesy Jayce Salloum and SAVAC / photo Toni Hafkenscheid

Jayce Salloum and Khadim Ali “دلِ که سوز ندارد, دلِ نیست Bamiyan (the heart that has no love/pain/generosity is not a heart)” 2010 Installation view Courtesy Jayce Salloum and SAVAC / photo Toni Hafkenscheid

As Deborah Campbell explains in her fall issue article “Reclamation Artist,” Vancouver-based artist Jayce Salloum has a long track record of not only exploding but exposing the political and social dynamite of Middle Eastern and Western realities. This spring, Salloum’s latest exhibition "دلِ که سوز ندارد, دلِ نیست Bamiyan (the heart that has no love/pain/generosity is not a heart)" was featured at the Royal Ontario Museum as part of the 2010 Images Festival. The sprawling multimedia installation, which was produced in collaboration with the Afghan artist Khadim Ali and presented at the ROM by the South Asian Visual Arts Centre, is a poetic investigation of the historical legacy and savage 2001 destruction of a pair of 5th-century colossal Buddhas in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley. Here, a selection of six images from the exhibition offers poignant evidence of Salloum’s moving world view.

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This article was first published online on September 9, 2010.

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