Shamin Sharum: Provisional Sanctuaries

A solo exhibition by Malaysian artist and designer that reflects on the quiet, temporary musollas that pop up in the UAE’s warehouses, shopfronts, and back rooms, modest prayer spaces that are shaped by necessity rather than formal design. Through paintings, drawings, and maquettes, Sharum examines how fleeting environments can create belonging, stillness, and connection among strangers joined by faith in the city. As he says, “Relocating to Dubai made me feel like an outsider, but discovering a small cabin-like musolla tucked within a transient site during my early days provided an unexpected sense of familiarity, softening my feelings of displacement”.

By lifting these spaces out of their functional settings, says the gallery, “Sharum invites viewers to look closely at details that are often overlooked. His works isolate, flatten, and reconstruct fragments of these environments, allowing the audience to reconsider how sacredness can emerge through practice, memory, and human presence rather than architecture alone …”

To 26 November.

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