{"id":63201,"date":"2025-09-09T11:35:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=63201"},"modified":"2025-09-09T11:36:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:36:50","slug":"last-chance-abdelkader-benchamma-rumors-from-the-skies","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/last-chance-abdelkader-benchamma-rumors-from-the-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"<mark>CLOSING TODAY<\/mark> Abdelkader Benchamma: Rumors from the Skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For his third solo exhibition here, the French-Algerian artist has taken inspiration from <em>Kometenbuch (The Comet Book)<\/em>, a 16th-century Flemish treatise depicting comets and fantastical apparitions; Benchamma suggests how astronomy and astrology, science and folklore, continue to overlap in shaping our perception of the cosmos via a new body of intricate ink drawings and landscapes . Meteorites, crying stones, and shooting stars drift across forests and horizons, hovering between recognition and mystery; there&#8217;s also a monumental mural paired with a projected animation that extends this vision into immersive territory, opening onto swirling, otherworldly sequences of light, texture, and form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">For his third solo exhibition here, the French-Algerian artist has taken inspiration from Kometenbuch (The Comet Book), a 16th-century Flemish treatise depicting comets and fantastical apparitions; Benchamma suggests how astronomy and astrology, science and folklore, continue to overlap in shaping <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/last-chance-abdelkader-benchamma-rumors-from-the-skies\/\" title=\"CLOSING TODAY Abdelkader Benchamma: Rumors from the Skies\"> [&#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-63201","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\/63201","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\/63201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63201"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=63201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}