Tajammul

The XVA group show for the summer, curated by Carina Vicente, promises “beauty and grace, capturing the aesthetics of the evolving art landscape in the contemporary Middle East” – the title comes from the Arabic root word for beauty (jamaal), “signifying efforts to make oneself beautiful in appearance or courteous in deed … In this way, Tajammul implies a form of grace that comes from infusing places, spaces, and situations with a sense of elegant beauty and social ease. It reflects the way that the United Arab Emirates is not only a place of fine art, high culture, sweeping architecture, and dynamic change, but a place of close connections, loyal friendships, and warm hospitality. Certainly it’s an impressive (and impressively diverse) roster of participants.

The artists:

• • Basil Alkazzi
  • Hussein Al-Mohasen
  • Charlotte de Bekker
  • CC (Alireza Asbahi)
  • Imran Channa
  • Elizabeth Dorazio
  • Oussama Garti
  • Mahmoud Hamadani
  • David Howarth
  • Richard Ketley
  • Behdad Lahooti
  • Colleen Quigley
  • Tor Seidel
  • Moussa Tiba
  • Morteza Zahedi

To 11 September.