{"id":62246,"date":"2025-06-10T14:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T10:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=62246"},"modified":"2025-06-10T14:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T10:05:11","slug":"ihab-ahmad-i-put-my-brain-on-pause","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/ihab-ahmad-i-put-my-brain-on-pause\/","title":{"rendered":"Ihab Ahmad: I PUT MY BRAIN ON PAUSE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new body of work in this solo exhibition marks a turning point in Ihab Ahmad\u2019s practice \u2013 &#8220;a move toward instinct, spontaneity, and emotional exploration&#8221; as the gallery puts it. Smiling faces populate the canvases, each a reflection of the people and encounters that have left a joyful imprint on his life; new materials, oil and spray paint, are applied on linen to create richly layered, expressive surfaces that blur the line between abstraction and figuration, &#8220;reflecting a deeper trust in intuition and emotional release&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the paintings, Ahmad will be showing a new series of sculptures that echo the playful, totemic language of this visual world.<\/p>\n<p>To 20 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The new body of work in this solo exhibition marks a turning point in Ihab Ahmad\u2019s practice \u2013 &#8220;a move toward instinct, spontaneity, and emotional exploration&#8221; as the gallery puts it. Smiling faces populate the canvases, each a reflection of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/ihab-ahmad-i-put-my-brain-on-pause\/\" title=\"Ihab Ahmad: I PUT MY BRAIN ON PAUSE!\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[50,96],"class_list":["post-62246","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","tribe_events_cat-art","tribe_events_cat-exhibition","cat_art","cat_exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/62246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/62246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62246"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=62246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}