PODCAST: Gallery Girl Meets Banat Collective

May 6, 2020.Reading time 6 minutes.

In this episode of the Gallery Girl podcast we speak to Sara bin Safwan and Sarah Al Agroobi, curators of Banat Collective

Augustine Paredes @ Campus Art Dubai

April 10, 2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

Leaving home to be a migrant worker in a different country is like cooking Adobo. Different ingredients in one pot, boiled and simmered – simultaneously stirred in different directions and ways, peppered with additional spices – until finally cooked through and ready to be served – Augustine Paredes At this year’s Art Dubai photography based […]

Fernando Botero @ Custot

January 9, 2019.Reading time 9 minutes.

Round orbs of orange-yellow fruit rest on top of a fuchsia textile, situated before a peach background. The spheres are excessively plump. It is as though they have been aerated and, if one were to accidentally drop onto the ground, it would not be surprising if the ball bounced right up onto the table’s surface […]

Anahita Razmi @ Carbon.12

November 21, 2018.Reading time 9 minutes.

The press release for Anahita Razmi’s current exhibition at Carbon.12 in Dubai describes an alien landing on Earth, who immediately demands to be taken to the planet’s leader. In Take Me to Your Leader, Razmi asks who leads and who misleads. Playing on her own personal dichotomy — as an Iranian woman who grew up […]

Barjeel Art Foundation @ Whitechapel

September 1, 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

The final show in Whitechapel’s four part exhibition of contemporary art from the Middle East is probably both the most interesting and the most frustrating. Over the past year the gallery has played host to the Barjeel Art Foundation in a bid to introduce Londoners to modern and contemporary art from the Arab world. This […]