This is Dillon’s first solo exhibition in Dubai; and it is claimed to be a milestone in the artist\u2019s career, featuring a body of work conceived and created specifically for this show.<\/p>\n
In Claude L\u00e9vi-Strauss\u2019s influential text of the same name, the author identified binary oppositions \u2013 nature and culture, raw and cooked \u2013 as fundamental tools by which societies organise meaning. For Dillon, it is more than a reference; it offers a conceptual lens through which his paintings may be read \u2013 Dillon feels he is testing the limits of painting as a medium that can bridge instinct and intellect, gesture and structure, matter and form. As the gallery puts it, “Dillon\u2019s works remind us that art continues to operate like myth: as a space where chaos is given form, where the elemental becomes symbolic, and where human thought \u2013 raw and cooked alike \u2013 finds its most resonant expression”.<\/p>\n
To 17 November.<\/p>\n
Above: Thomas Dillon, Hawkeye (2025, detail)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"