For those of you in Dubai and not able to get to the capital for this week’s art fair, Alserkal Avenue is presenting a series of pop ups and temporary installations.
Highlights include an oud performance by Sharjah-based curator and artist, Karim Sultan, who explores the way memories recede and fracture over time by attempting to accompany a repeated piece of music on the oud as the air around him becomes less dense, as it would if he was rising in altitude.
Photographer Farah Al Qasimi also has a new body of work exploring the unseen labours of women in the cycle of creation and consumption, using photography, performance and video. Printed in large scale alongside the warehouses, the images are unmissable.
Also on show is a new series of ceramic and glass works called Silica by Michael Rice, a professor at American University in Dubai. Asma Khoory's exhibition, titled Look Beyond Them, is a visual diary of construction workers in Dubai. With this exhibition, made of helmets, audio clips and portraits, Khoory is attempting to give a face and voice to those who built the city.
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