{"id":360,"date":"2025-12-28T13:49:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brittanyhouseactivcare.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/28\/ali-eyal-imagine-all-this-happened-just-an-hour-ago-francois-ghebaly-nyc\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T13:49:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:49:34","slug":"ali-eyal-imagine-all-this-happened-just-an-hour-ago-francois-ghebaly-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brittanyhouseactivcare.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/28\/ali-eyal-imagine-all-this-happened-just-an-hour-ago-francois-ghebaly-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Eyal: &#8220;Imagine, all this happened just an hour ago&#8221; @ Francois Ghebaly, NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"K2FeedImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.juxtapoz.com\/media\/k2\/items\/cache\/d93eda812ce291603b1aa392f1144c72_L.jpg\" alt=\"Ali Eyal: \"Imagine, all this happened just an hour ago\" @ Francois Ghebaly, NYC\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">Fran\u00e7ois Ghebaly is proud to present&nbsp;Imagine, all this happened just an hour ago, Ali Eyal\u2019s debut exhibition with the gallery. Ali Eyal is an Iraqi artist working across painting, drawing, assemblage, and film to examine how personal memory tangles with political violence and loss. Born in Baghdad in 1994, Eyal orients much of his practice around vanished places: the unelectrified dark of a childhood bedroom in the city; an uncle&#8217;s farm south of Baghdad; and other familial spaces now destroyed and existing only in the artist\u2019s imagination to which he returns again and again through the circuitous routes of memory and reinterpretation. His images unfold in a cartoonish, sometimes grotesque idiom that sidesteps realism. Instead, Eyal finds in exaggeration and&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fran\u00e7ois Ghebaly is proud to present&nbsp;Imagine, all this happened just an hour ago, Ali Eyal\u2019s debut exhibition with the gallery. Ali Eyal is an Iraqi artist working across painting, drawing, as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brittanyhouseactivcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brittanyhouseactivcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brittanyhouseactivcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brittanyhouseactivcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brittanyhouseactivcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brittanyhouseactivcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brittanyhouseactivcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brittanyhouseactivcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}