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SYNTHESIS: 2023 MFA Graduate Show by Mahra Alfalahi of NYU Abu Dhabi was held at 421 in Abu Dhabi. (supply). (supply)
421, Abu Dhabi’s independent platform dedicated to supporting emerging creative practices, is presenting its Spring 2023 program: Savor the Sun and Moon.
Running through June 21, Spring features two major exhibitions and a wide range of workshops and special events designed to bring people together to slow down and think together. It features supper clubs, cultural tours and excursions, offering intuitive and tangible ways to contribute to shared new beginnings.
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The Winter 2023 exhibitions “Many Mirrors” and “Mahshid Rafiei: Fabulous Proportions” will also run through Spring, until 8 May.
Spring 2023 exhibitions, opening May 18, include Nasir Nasrallah’s new solo exhibition, “The Poetics of Machines,” featuring more than 30 new works commissioned by 421 as part of an arts development program, and NYU Abu Dhabi’s SYNTHESIS : The 2023 MFA Grad Exhibit showcases the work of this year’s Art and Media graduates.
“We are delighted to present the work of Nasir Nasrallah this season. His new solo exhibition is the result of his participation in the Artistic Development Programme, which focuses on supporting Emirati artists Think deeply about the reception of their work in the public sphere, as well as connection, exchange and multidimensional interaction with the surrounding community,” said Faisal Al Hassan, Director of 421.
“We are also excited to host NYU Abu Dhabi’s SYNTHESIS: 2023 MFA Graduate Exhibition. This exhibition marks the second year of our collaboration with the NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Master of Arts in Art and Media Program. We The partnership feels like a perfect fit: two projects whose mission to support the emergence of emerging contemporary practices in the region fit together so seamlessly.”
Nasir Nasrallah: The Poetics of the Machine
Nasir Nasrallah’s new solo exhibition at 421 titled “The Poetics of Machines” will open in Gallery 1 from May 18 to August 27, presenting a mysterious exploration of the relationship between man and machine. Through an intricate series of drawings, paintings, publications, textiles and installations, the Emirati artist takes us on a journey into a world of mechanical beings existing in an unknown time and space, inspired by early Islamic inventions and experiments.
Artwork by Nasir Nasrallah. (Image courtesy of 421. Photography by Ismail Noor)
Drawings and paintings are highly detailed and depict a variety of unique robotic figures. They usually appear in groups, suggesting a kind of machine community or society.
The exhibition acts as a stage or set in which to stage an impromptu narrative that examines how this community of machines talks, communicates and interacts, exploring the potential for life in so-called inanimate matter and vice versa. The work invites us to consider the impact of machines on our daily lives and our evolving relationship with these mechanical beings.
Nasrallah’s descriptions of machines are not just mechanical; instead, he imbues them with personality, emotion, and even a sense of humor. In one of his installations, for example, visitors walking through the exhibition are presented with a fax machine that receives messages in real time and a sofa setup that replicates Nasrallah’s personal studio. These elements create a sense of familiarity and intimacy, inviting visitors into the artist’s personal world.
Nasrallah is the recipient of the 2023 cycle of the 421 Arts Development Program. “Machine Poetics” is the result of this project, which is organized in cooperation with the teaching partner Academy of Emerging Arts.
General: 2023 MFA Graduation Exhibition
The 2023 MFA Graduate Exhibition showcases the work of graduate students completing the two-year Master of Fine Arts in Art and Media at NYUAD.
Running May 18-August 27, the exhibit marks the second year of 421’s partnership with NYU, showcasing the research and experiments of the inaugural MFA cohort, who visualized issues and ideas in a wide-ranging manner and provided Invaluable insight into our contemporary global condition. SYNTHESIS features projects by Elizabeth Dorazio, Liane Al Ghusain, Majd Alloush, Mahra AlFalahi and Fabiola Chiminazzo.
This collaboration between 421 and NYUAD aims to empower the MFA community to work beyond a purely academic or institutional setting by promoting their exploration of public space as a site for community engagement and critical dialogue.
current exhibition
“Mirrors Are Many,” curated by Mona Al-Jadir, is on view until May 8, 2023, and investigates the institutional repositories of memory—museums, memorials, and archives.
Installation view of “Many Mirrors” exhibition. (Image courtesy of 421)
Artists participating in this exhibition are Maitha Abdalla, Rand Abdul Jabbar, Reem Al Menhali, Emii Alrai, Moza Almatrooshi, Nasser Alzayani, Hadeyeh Badri, Rohini Devasher, Vikram Divecha, Mirella Salamé, Sara Smarrazzo, Dima Srouji and Fatima Uzdenova.
April 29, 2023 (Saturday) On the evening of the 29th (4:30 pm – 5:30 pm), there will be a guided tour by the exhibition curator Al-Jadir. This 45-minute guided tour will include in-depth discussions around the theme of the exhibition and an overview of the exhibited works. The tour also includes a performance by artist Reem Almenahli.
Mahshid Rafiei: Fabulous proportions
The first solo exhibition featuring Mahshid Rafiei’s work “Of Mythic Proportions” will run until May 8, 2023,
is a large-scale installation of five newly commissioned works. The installation, which occupies the entire space of Gallery 1, demonstrates that illusion is not the opposite of truth, but an accomplice, leading us into a lost world.
“Fabulous Proportion” includes sculptural and sound works, elements of which are intentionally hidden to provide a deceptive reading, and asks us to consider how art can provide substitutes for what may be missing.
Through this play on illusion and perception, Rafiei explores the aesthetic process of origin myths and their protection. One of Mahshid Rafiei’s inspirations for this exhibition was a poem by a 19th-century Bedouin woman. To ease the grief of a female camel in her flock that has lost a calf, she inflates the skin of the dead baby’s dead baby to convince the female camel that she is still alive.
This exhibition is the result of the 421 Art Development Exhibition Programme, organized in collaboration with teaching partner Emerging Arts Academy.
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