LAST CHANCE Afra Al Dhaheri: Restless Circle

A selection of works by Afra Al Dhaheri that explore the structural effects of tension, repetition and time provides Sharjah Art Foundation’s first show of Autumn. “Working with materials such as cotton rope, fabric, cement and hair, the artist emphasises slow gestures, intentional movements and the fatigue that can build from ongoing, repetitive and even invisible labour …”

The exhibition’s title comes from a newly commissioned installation with the same name; that draws inspiration from desert plants that create spiral patterns in the sand as they move with the wind. For Afra Al Dhaheri, this offers a metaphor for mental exhaustion and collective burnout, the sense of being endlessly pushed to produce or perform: “in other works, repetition emerges as a condition of making, a method shaped by the interplay of tension, weight and the ongoing rhythm of doing and undoing”.