June 2016. Tate Modern, London, UK. The new display of the modern collections includes more and more “Middle East/North Africa” works; they demonstrate the tensions between figurative and abstract art in the context of the Cold War. On these walls Hamed Abdalla (Egypt), Farid Belkahia (Morocco) as well as Bahman Mohassess (Iran) hang alongside Jackson Pollock, Jean Dubuffet and Wifredo Lam. This photo shows Hamed Abdalla’s son and grandsons as a family, armed with a video camera, come to immortalize their grandfather’s admission to the Tate. None of the 5 million visitors a year will see the work the way they see it, but by the same token, they will never see it the same way those 5 million see it. The exhibition Hamed Abdalla: ARABECEDAIRE is currently at The Mosaic Rooms, London.