REVIEW: Mohammed Kazem’s Sound of Objects at Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde
30 December 2014 • Rachel Bennett
Sound of Objects is performative of Sound, a medium moved beyond aurality in Mohammed Kazem’s syntax.
Tag: FAD DUBAI
REVIEW: Michael John Whelan’s Lupus, at Grey Noise Dubai
29 November 2014 • Rachel Bennett
Lupus is a site-specific work in so far as it conjures a specific place. The topography of this place is present: precise in objects, artefacts, here in real life, in black and white. Or so the cliché would have you perceive it.
Abu Dhabi Art: Small in Stature, Surprising in Status
7 November 2014 • Rachel Bennett
When considered amongst gargantuan international art fairs, like last months Frieze or next months Miami Art Basel, Abu Dhabi Art… Read More
REVIEW: Drawing as Storytelling – Hikayat at Green Art Gallery, Dubai
25 October 2014 • Rachel Bennett
“It looks childish, but it is not childish… one can see how much I love human beings, in my art I… Read More
REVIEW: Rearranging the Career of Bita Fayyazi, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde Dubai
25 October 2014 • Rachel Bennett
Bita Fayyazi’s work is disquieting; massive cockroaches swarm and inelegant thread bound heads jut from walls, smashed figures squat on low podiums and terracotta dead dogs lie on piles of dirt.
REVIEW: Accidental Excavations | Mariam Suhail at Grey Noise Dubai
28 September 2014 • Rachel Bennett
Mariam Suhail titles her works with a significance that alters the whole.
REVIEW: Jaber Al Azmeh’s art of revolutionary renewal at Green Art Gallery, Dubai
14 September 2014 • Rachel Bennett
The final in a short series of flashbacks to last season in Dubai, we look at Jaber Al Azmeh’s A… Read More
REVIEW :mentalKLINIK negotiating the digitised datafied self in Thank You for Your Cooperation
9 September 2014 • Rachel Bennett
This year, in Dubai’s industrial zone, a quasi-clinic stood within a warehouse building. The building was inhabited by sounds and mirrors, works which dynamically evolved the perceptions and the position of those who witnessed it.
REVIEW: So long and thanks for all the fish at Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai
25 August 2014 • Rachel Bennett
Ahead of Dubai galleries returning from the Summer break, we take advantage of the quiet August period to look back… Read More
REVIEW: I guess that dreams are always there, Charbel-joseph H. Boutros at Grey Noise, Dubai
23 June 2014 • Rachel Bennett
I guess that dreams are always there, Charbel-joseph H. Boutros Grey Noise, Al Serkal Avenue, Dubai This is an exhibition… Read More
EVENT: Typographic Matchmaking in the City at Creekside, Dubai
20 June 2014 • Rachel Bennett
The film tracks a year-long collaboration between five teams – comprising 15 Dutch and Middle-Eastern graphic designers, architects and typographers – as they seek to create truly-dual Arabic and Latin script types to be used in public spaces.
ART NEWS: Sharjah Art Foundation announces Eungie Joo as curator for SB12, ‘The past, the present, the possible’
20 June 2014 • Rachel Bennett
Eungie Joo as curator for SB12