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  • Mustafa Hulusi, Recollections of Underdevelopment 8, 2015, ink-jet print on Dibond, 65 × 47".

    Mustafa Hulusi, Recollections of Underdevelopment 8, 2015, ink-jet print on Dibond, 65 × 47".

    Mustafa Hulusi

    Meliksetian | Briggs

    One encountered “Recollections of Underdevelopment,” an arresting exhibition of new photo-based works by Mustafa Hulusi, before even setting foot in the gallery. Eye-catching photographs of bloodred pomegranates on newsprint lined the insides of the space’s windowpanes, making a colorful wall of images visible from the sidewalk. The fruits in the British artist’s “Pomegranate” series, 2014–, are depicted in various states of ripeness and decay. In some pictures, pomegranates appear on parched patches of dirt amid desiccated leaves. In others, images of the fruit are twice removed: These photographs

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