Hamad Almuzaini: Precarious Beings

“What is the ultimate goal of a city?” asks architect/artist Hamad Almuzaini: “Governance and the streamlining of lived experience – an impossible task – or something more open, broken, and constantly reinvented?” He says these questions guide his work across photography, drawing, and sculpture as he probes the entangled systems and countless stakeholders that make and remake environments we call ‘home’. “My practice involves observing and researching built environments and the ways we generate and respond to the notion of ‘place’ … By examining widely encountered subjects within cities, I reinterpret how we navigate and interact with these places – uncovering gestures, behaviours, and motivations that quietly shape the act of placemaking.”

The exhibition looks at placemaking within the context of Kuwait City, considering everyday details, overlooked objects, and urban infrastructures that shape places to trace the subtle relationships between people, objects, systems, and the built environment.

To 11 October.