Spring program of the gallery. It is announced by the organization that is behind Jameel’s Art Centre, Art Jameel.
‘A Space of Celebration’ is Taus Makhacheva’s first retrospective exhibition in West Asia, bringing together works created over the past thirteen years, including a new site-specific commission.
In the first survey in West Asia, Taus Makhacheva brings up her expansive body of installation, sound, and performance work to recount complex histories through a cast of characters, including her, alter ego, Super Taus. Her humorous installations involve dysfunctional exercise rooms, Soviet-era circuses, wedding halls, and suspended mountain ranges.
Facts with everyday myths, troubling the notation of cultural authenticity, and making way for the fantastical are present in her work.
The exhibition Fahd Burki: Daydreams will showcase more than 50 works from Burki’s 15-year practice, while Taus Makhacheva: A Space of Celebration marks the first survey of the Moscow-born artist. March 5 to October 9, 2022
The exhibition is accompanied by an Art Jameel publication featuring texts by Murtaza Vali, Saira Ansari, and Dawn Ross.
Jameel Arts Centre is also introducing a program of site-specific interventions by creatives from around the world. The inaugural Park Projects will feature one artist from Dubai, Nahla Tabbaa, and another from Hong Kong, Trevor Yeung. The two have been commissioned to be part of a two-day ecology symposium, inspired by the centre’s Artist’s Garden (Desert is a Forest) project.