{"id":68010,"date":"2026-03-16T22:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=68010"},"modified":"2026-03-16T22:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:04:13","slug":"last-chance-bashar-khalaf-the-field-of-dreams","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/last-chance-bashar-khalaf-the-field-of-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"<mark>CLOSING TODAY<\/mark> Bashar Khalaf: The Field of Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Khalaf explores the relationship between self, object, and other through a focus on &#8216;steel&#8217; in public spaces: <i>The Field of Dreams<\/i>, or &#8220;dreams as minefields&#8221;, remind us of the modern structures of unbridled capitalism and the transformative domination of life. This is delivered via two series of oil paintings, The Junk Garden and The Protective Shield. The latter is particularly powerful, using <span class=\"font-semibold\" data-streamdown=\"strong\"><span data-sd-animate=\"true\">garbage<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">bins<\/span><\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">as<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">symbols<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">of<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">resistance<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">during<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">the<\/span> <span class=\"font-semibold\" data-streamdown=\"strong\"><span data-sd-animate=\"true\">First<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">Intifada<\/span><\/span><span data-sd-animate=\"true\"> \u2013 <\/span><span data-sd-animate=\"true\">juxtaposing<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">their<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">role<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">as<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">protective<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">barriers<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">against<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">the<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">colonial<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">settler<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">machinery<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">with<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">the<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">oppressive<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">use<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">of<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">steel<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">barrels<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">to<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">enforce<\/span> <span data-sd-animate=\"true\">isolation.<\/span><br \/>\nKhalaf asks questions about humanity&#8217;s choices in the face of hegemony and the nature of freedom in contemporary society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Khalaf explores the relationship between self, object, and other through a focus on &#8216;steel&#8217; in public spaces: The Field of Dreams, or &#8220;dreams as minefields&#8221;, remind us of the modern structures of unbridled capitalism and the transformative domination of life. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/last-chance-bashar-khalaf-the-field-of-dreams\/\" title=\"CLOSING TODAY Bashar Khalaf: The Field of Dreams\"> [&#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-68010","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\/68010","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\/68010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68010"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=68010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}