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Waiting for Omar Gatlato: A Survey of Contemporary Art from Algeria and Its Diaspora fundraiser mónica teresa ortizThis catalogue offers diverse representations of everyday life in Algeria and its diaspora through film, paintings, photography and sculpture by twenty five contemporary artists. It includes the first English translations of key theoretical texts on Algerian contemporary art. Artists who belong to Algeria are caught between a national mythology that does not represent them and a historical space blanked out by state sanctioned amnesia on both sides of