{"id":66582,"date":"2026-01-20T19:52:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=66582"},"modified":"2026-01-20T19:52:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:52:04","slug":"last-chance-shamsa-al-omaira-hard-like-tears-soft-like-glass","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/last-chance-shamsa-al-omaira-hard-like-tears-soft-like-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"<mark>CLOSING TODAY<\/mark> Shamsa Al Omaira:\u00a0Hard Like Tears, Soft Like Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A solo exhibition for Shamsa Al Omaira, an Abu Dhabi based multidisciplinary artist and designer.\u00a0Evocations of duality occupy a prominent position in her work; childhood bedding and memories of jelly desserts morph into soft-looking sculptures laced with hidden or overt symbols of harm in ceramic and glass shards. How precarious is childhood?<\/p>\n<p>As part of the gallery\u2019s programme, Al Omaira was mentored by UAE-based curator and art critic Nadine Khalil over the last year, resulting in a development of her practice and experimentation with new mediums, including woodwork, stitching and installation works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">A solo exhibition for Shamsa Al Omaira, an Abu Dhabi based multidisciplinary artist and designer.\u00a0Evocations of duality occupy a prominent position in her work; childhood bedding and memories of jelly desserts morph into soft-looking sculptures laced with hidden or overt <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/last-chance-shamsa-al-omaira-hard-like-tears-soft-like-glass\/\" title=\"CLOSING TODAY Shamsa Al Omaira:\u00a0Hard Like Tears, Soft Like Glass\"> [&#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-66582","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\/66582","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\/66582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66582"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=66582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}