Contemplate abstract pieces at Dubai’s XVA Gallery this month

Kind of blue, 2014, 70x100cm, acrylic, cardboard on canvas from Mukesh Shah: IN BETWEEN (Courtesy: XVA Gallery)

Yemeni artist Mukesh Shah’s exhibition opened last night in XVA Gallery in Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood. It is his first solo show with the gallery and he describes his quietly contemplative abstract pieces as “detached but also human” something he says is more relative than ever.

“I am drawn to the space where figuration dissolves into abstraction and where abstraction coalesces into figuration,” the artist says in a statement. “My compositions often have a geometric structure with space, repetition and chance as keynotes. The process of making is important in itself and the use of different materials adds a tactile textural physicality to the work.”

* In Between runs until July 5. www.xvagallery.com