Exhibitions
Past
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The Magical Number 7 +/- Two
Asma Khoory, Salama Nasib and Sara Al Haddad 21 Jan - 15 Feb 2019 This three-artist exhibition considers the complexities of memory and takes its title from the landmark 1956 paper by George A. Miller, The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information, published in Psychological Review, discussing short-term memory and the storage of memories. All three artists approach the concept of memory through their work; albeit in dramatically different ways and techniques. Read more -
Beauty Blocked My View
Zhivago Duncan 7 Nov 2018 - 15 Jan 2019 As an artist working in a huge variety of media, Duncan now presents this surprising new body of work using the Indonesian method of batik. Batik has a long cultural history throughout the Middle East and Asia and is most developed in Indonesia, where batik has a long history of intricate designs that represent a person’s marital and societal status and their religious preference. A cloth that is usually reserved for clothing and accessories, Duncan has re-purposed this method in the form of canvas, to create painting. Read more