An ambitious large-scale group exhibition dedicated to mapping and navigation systems, “telling stories of fast cars and donkeys, spinning globes and street barricades, cosmic highways and broken bridges … [it] delves into topographies, transit lines and simulated landscapes to engage critically with the infrastructure of movement and navigation”. Set against real and imagined geographies and landscapes, the exhibition asks questions about the infrastructures that enable transport and trade, the promises of speed and progress, the meaning of home, and what ‘navigation’ means when the destination is not a place but a memory …<\/p>\n
The artists:<\/p>\n
Bani Abidi
\nMadiha Aijaz
\nFatma Al Ali
\nMahmoud Alhaj
\nLulua Alyahya
\nAna Amorim
\nNazgol Ansarinia
\nFay\u00e7al Baghriche
\nMirna Bamieh
\nHeman Chong
\nAngela Detanico & Rafael Lain
\nHarun Farocki
\nMd Fazla Rabbi Fatiq
\nDevadeep Gupta
\nHylozoic\/Desires
\nMohammed Kazem
\nLawrence Lek
\nDora Longo Bahia
\nCinthia Marcelle
\nSeher Naveed
\n\u015eener \u00d6zmen & Erkan \u00d6zgen
\nFazal Rizvi
\nHassan Sharif
\nVishwa Shroff
\nDima Srouji
\nDo Ho Suh
\nT. Vinoja
\nSubas Tamang
\nBo Wang
\nTatyana Zambrano<\/p>\n
That’s an impressive list, satisfyingly light on European names (for the purpose of making this point we’re assuming T\u00fcrkiye to be non-European) and covering a wide range of artistic practices “from research-based engagements with infrastructure projects to conceptual works that question the very perception of distance”.<\/p>\n
Global Positioning System, which is curated by Indranjan Banerjee and Lucas Morin (both exhibition curators at the Jameel), runs 9 May to 4 October, an impressive six-month stint that indicates how important the Jameel thinks it is; and this is actually a two-centre exhibition, with a second ‘chapter’ at Hayy Jameel in Jeddah from 20 May to 26 October featuring 22 artists \u2013 a third of whom are from the Dubai roster, with new names making up the balance.<\/p>\n
Above: Subas Tamang, Study of History III (2017)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"