Detail from Shadow Sites II, Jananne Al-Ani, 2011, single channel digital video.
Vast deserts and ancient ruins often define imagery of the Middle East. These views of a landscape as a timeless and depopulated space have long fascinated Iraqi-born artist Jananne Al-Ani, culminating in her Shadow Sites exhibition, on view at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Al-Ani's latest video work, Shadow Sites II (2011), is composed of aerial film footage shot in Jordan from a vantage point far above the landscape, reminiscent of early archaeological and World War I reconnaissance photographs. On view through February 10, 1050 Independence Avenue, S.W.
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