For her first solo exhibition, the culmination of the artist’s participation in the 2024 cycle of the 421 Artistic Development Program, Ayyash presents a collaborative video piece focusing on small body movements. Created with a group of actors, dancers, and performance artists selected through an open call, the piece is a study of repetitive non-functional movements, without purpose or productivity, that questions the tension between passing time and wasting time.<\/p>\n
The collaborators filmed themselves responding to movement prompts, encouraging them to consider what \u2018doing nothing\u2019 looks like; Ayyash extracts fragments of the collected footage and edits them to be layered one over the other or side-by-side, constantly changing, accumulating, and subtracting. The everyday and the mundane are themes highlighted in work, as the bodies are stuck repeating their movements in a loop, going nowhere. Without a clear narrative to hold the spectator\u2019s attention, the exhibition serves as a playful inquiry into the objective nature of time.<\/p>\n
This project grew from the artist\u2019s earlier participation in the Homebound Residency Program in 2020, where she produced a video work titled Folding Bellies<\/em> in collaboration with five participants from the UAE art community.<\/p>\n To 25 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"