Exhibitions

My Broken Dream

Dia Azzawi 8 Nov 2016 - 10 Jan 2017 My Broken Dream has taken over two years to complete, and was made alongside Five Children Playing Football, currently on view as part of Azzawi’s retrospective at Al Riwaq and Mathaf, Qatar Museums; I Am the Cry, Who Will Give Voice to Me? As part of a series of black and white, large -­‐scale works, My Broken Dream acts as a manifesto of sorts; a reaction against and commentary upon the US invasion of Iraq. Read more

I am the cry, who will give voice to me? Dia Azzawi: A Retrospective (from 1963 until tomorrow)

16 Oct 2016 - 16 Apr 2017 Curated by the Centre Pompidou’s Deputy Director Catherine David, the exhibition was designed for two spaces, with two focuses that arise from a shared starting point. One side of the exhibition looks at Azzawi’s relationship with politics in Iraq and within the Arab World; whereas the second exhibition space considers the relationship between text and image throughout Azzawi’s oeuvre. Read more

Seamless Loop

Sheikha Wafa Al Maktoum 26 Sep - 31 Oct 2016 Seamless Loop explores themes of iconography, heritage and tradition. The 16-work strong exhibition is comprised of 8 textile pieces, and 8 screen prints. Sheikha Wafa bint Hasher al Makotum’s point of departure was to consider symbols she found endemic of the UAE, icons that symbolized the country. Selecting images of the falcon, the camel, the horse, the gazelle, the fish, the leopard, the fort and the palm, Sheikha Wafa bint Hasher al Maktoum began experimenting with sketches and collages, playing with colour and texture. She began to work with the original images and reduce them to their most simple form, after which she began manipulating the symbols digitally, creating an almost kaleidoscopic design; conjuring thoughts of Islamic geometry. Read more

Arab Print

Volume II 20 May - 1 Sep 2016 Works by Dia Azzawi, Kamal Boullata, Marwan, Mohammed Omar Khalil and the late Rafa Nasriri come together in Arab Print Vol II to celebrate the medium of printmaking. These artists, considered to be Modern Arab masters in their own right, were largely responsible for the development of print-making in the... Read more

Never But Always

Zhivago Duncan 13 Mar - 10 May 2016 In this new body of work, Duncan uses gold and linen, combining these materials with his technique of silkscreen to create a truly unique series of works. The combination of different materials itself is reflected in the subject matter, where Islamic geometry are super imposed with a guillotine in one piece, to Spiderman in the next. Read more