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LAST CHANCE Lala Rukh II: The importance of staying quiet

Grey Noise Unit 24 Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

The first part of this series, Lala Rukh I, presented a selection of photographs from the artist’s archives during her years at the University of Chicago (1974-76). Its speculative framework helped us to stage the evolution of Lala’s photographic sensibility, [ ... ]

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Kais Salman: Remnants

New work by Kais Salman, who "places his audience among ruins ... his recent body of work acting as a pile of forgotten images buried beneath decades of historical buildup ... Faces emerge through Salman’s energetic brushwork, only to fade [ ... ]

Anuar Khalifi: Remember the Future

The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

The third Third Line solo exhibition by Spanish-Moroccan artist Anuar Khalifi comprises a new body of large-scale paintings and works on paper that represent an evolution in Khalifi’s practice, with increasingly intricate and carefully composed settings expanding the pictorial field. [ ... ]

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Alia Hussain Lootah: In the Space of Becoming

Aisha Alabbar Gallery Warehouse C19, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

In this new body of work – paintings, drawings, and sculpture – Alia Lootah continues an exploration of how form moves, shifts, and transforms ("a form is never finished, only paused"). Shapes stretch, collapse, and reappear altered, "existing in a [ ... ]

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Anahita Razmi: The Task of the Mythologist

CARBON 12 17th Street, Dubai

Anahita Razmi's video, installation and performance works usually focus on issues of identity and gender and examine processes of cultural appropriation in which the meanings of existing images, artefacts and thus identities are put into question by situating them in [ ... ]

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:mentalKLINIK: Are You Human Enough

Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

Set within an environment of visual overload and compulsive accumulation, the work in this third solo exhibition at the gallery for the artist duo centres on the human figure at risk of dissolving into surface, interface, and pattern – a [ ... ]

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Aïda Muluneh: This Bloom I Borrow

Efiɛ Gallery 2 Al Khayat Art Avenue, First Al Khail Street, Dubai

A new series of images by the Ethiopian art photographer, her second solo exhibition at the gallery. The show includes 10 works that have never been seen before, using techniques developed through Muluneh's recent residency at Efie. Muluneh has been [ ... ]

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Saher Nassar: Chronicles from the Storm

Zawyeh Gallery Warehouse 27, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

In this new body of work, Nassar reflects on prolonged states of loss, endurance, and moral exhaustion, translating deeply personal and collective experiences across multiple mediums. Says the gallery: "Rather than seeking resolution or catharsis, the works dwell in a [ ... ]

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Sarah McEneaney: Creative Non-Fiction

Taymour Grahne Projects Warehouse 31A, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

For nearly five decades, Sarah McEneaney has devoted her practice to a singular theme, the meticulous chronicling of her own life. This exhibition presents a series of paintings that chart the latest moments and milestones in a life – domestic [ ... ]

John Dilg: Found and Lost

Taymour Grahne Projects Warehouse 31A, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

The Iowa-based artist John Dilg represents scenic panoramas as earth-toned paintings that feel immediately familiar yet poignantly dreamlike. Having specialised in abstraction early in his career, Dilg’s evolution towards landscape painting retained an especial awareness of spatial relationships – "a [ ... ]