Art Jameel announces its autumn/winter 2022-23 programme at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, featuring over 50 artists from 14 countries. The programme includes group and solo exhibitions, site-specific and digital commissions and the launch of the World Weather Network Dubai Station.
Exhibitions
An Ocean in Every Drop
Until April 2, 2023
Speaking to the centrality of water in shaping our world and the complex web of relations produced by thinking with water, this exhibition features artists from First Nations and indigenous communities, through Ancient Persia to the UAE. Ranging from large-scale installation and audiovisual works to manuscripts and works on paper, An Ocean in Every Drop seeks to re-enchant our relationship with water through history, from the 10th century to the present day.
Exhibiting artists: Jumana Emil Abboud, Martha Atienza, Raven Chacon, Cian Dayrit, Léuli Eshrāghi, Asunción Molinos Gordo, Abul Hisham, Candice Hopkins, Sohrab Hura, Hussein Naserreddine, Thảo Nguyên-Phan, Daniel Otero Torres, Karan Shrestha, Fatima Uzdenova and Munem Wasif, as well as the work of 10th century geographer and writer al-Istakhri. Curated by Nora Razian and Rahul Gudipudi.
Proposals for a Memorial to Partition
Until February 19, 2023
Curated by Murtaza Vali, the exhibition spotlights provocations by 20 artists and writers that revisit the traumatic shifts resulting in the modern nation-states of South Asia. Showcasing the broadest spectrum of media, from text, drawing and painting to installation, maquettes, video and audio, the show offers a poetic look at a moment in history that resists definition.
Feautured artists: Bani Abidi, Saira Ansari, Hemali Bhuta, Fahd Burki, CAMP, Abhijan Toto, Fileona Dkhar and Pujita Guha for the Forest Curriculum, Shilpa Gupta, Faiza Hasan, Aziz Hazara, Karachi LaJamia (Shahana Rajani and Zahra Malkani), Shreyas Karle, Amitava Kumar, Pak Khawateen Painting Club, Sreshta Rit Premnath, Fazal Rizvi, Seher Shah, Omer Wasim and Nabla Yahya; with new commissions by Faiza Hasan, Fazal Rizvi and Omer Wasim.
Artist’s Rooms
December 7, 2022–May 14, 2023
Drawn largely from the Art Jameel Collection, Artist’s Rooms is a series of solo shows by influential, innovative artists.
Ayesha Sultana
This exhibition explores Sultana’s longstanding engagement with the materiality and everyday iconography of her home city of Dhaka, rendering forms of street corners, architectural features, wall textures and construction detrius encountered during her day-to-day life.
Risham Syed
Comprising major installation The Seven Seas (2012), a series of large-scale quilts depicting 20th-century maps of port cities that were strategically located on the colonial European trade route—including Ras al-Khaimah, UAE; Izmir, Turkey; Kandy, Sri Lanka, among others.
Daniele Genadry
This Artist’s Room is anchored around a major painting, Blind Light (2017), with new works based on her recent research in la Rochelle, France and the Grand Canyon, USA. Genadry focusses on distance, light and movement and their combination.
Digital
World Weather Network
Until June 21, 2023
Art Jameel joins 27 other arts organisations to form the World Weather Network, a constellation of ‘weather stations’ around the globe. The Art Jameel station is located in the desert gardens, library and public spaces of the Jameel and explores atmospheric humidity as a climatic marker of the Arabian Gulf.
The station’s weather reports—featured on the World Weather Network platform and via listening posts at the Jameel—primarily take the form of narrative podcast episodes by artists and writers, released throughout the year, exploring themes including The Threshold, Sweat and Labour and Technofutures. Contributors to the podcast series include: Noush Anand, Saira Ansari, Rahel Aima, Nadim Choufi, Nadine Khalil, Nidhi Mahajan and Deepak Unnikrishnan.
The stations are accompanied by on-site air-to-water generators, providing visitors with fresh drinking water.
Jameel Library
Library Circles: Rashed Qurwash
Until February 13, 2023
Through images, documents and interviews, Qurwash presents a display that investigates the Jaddaf neighborhood in Dubai and the practices it had once held.
Jameel Library Commissions: Khalid Mezaina
Until July 15, 2023
Mezaina explores regional textile and talismanic practice, touching on surface design, ceremonial textiles and costume design, with writings released fortnightly on the website and a physical textile piece in the Jameel Library.
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