Quoz Arts Fest 2024 | Disjunctions
Disjunctions
Lubna Chowdhary
Exhibitions
A solo exhibition by Lubna Chowdhary.
Date
27 Jan 2024 - 28 Feb 2024
Starts
10.00AM
Ends
7.00PM
Venue
Gallery_Isabelle
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The exhibition foregrounds the artist’s distinctive breed of disruption—of material, of tradition, of expectations. While clay and ceramics constitute her principal pursuit, she subverts the expectations of this medium by exploring tensions between the handmade and the industrial, the domestic and the urban, ornamentation and minimalism.
Her hallmark uses of colour and modularity coalesce in a show that fathoms two contrasting movements: on one hand zooming out to consider structural contexts (of language, for example, or the built environment); on the other, delving into the intricacies and minutiae of overlapping (machine-made) repetitions and (handmade) intuitions. The result is a show that revels in experiment, framing a succession of tensions, disjunctions, and upended dynamics.
About the participant
Gallery Isabelle
Isabelle van den Eynde launched her eponymous space in Alserkal Avenue in 2010, representing a roster of artists from the Middle East and North Africa. Gallery Isabelle collaborates closely with its artists though exhibitions, book publishing, and international art fair participation to create insightful, and often provocative presentations that challenge the conventions and ideologies related to the notion of art display and exhibition making. Artists in the gallery's roster include Rokni Haerizadeh, Ramin Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian, Mohammed Kazem, :MENTALKLINIK, Manal Al Dowayan, and the late Hassan Sharif.