Bound: Textiles Between Loss and Repair, curated by Murtaza Vali
Installation view at Green Art Gallery, Dubai, 2024
This week you can delve into two facets of the art world from the region. Experience the Middle East and India’s most impressive works – including old manuscripts, jewellery and rugs – while also discovering exciting contemporary artists from across the GCC.
Highlights include an eighth-century bronze buck sculpture on show at Sotheby’s Dubai and an exhibition focusing on our relationship with fabrics at Green Art Gallery in Alserkal Avenue.
Bound: Textiles Between Loss and Repair: Until November 2 at Green Art Gallery, Dubai
Green Art Gallery is currently exhibiting the last in a series investigating contemporary approaches to fibre. Bound: Textiles Between Loss and Repair is a group show featuring works by five artists; Dana Awartani, Jumana Manna, Hana Miletic, Dala Nasser and Khalil Rabah.
The exhibition builds on the concepts and narratives of nurture and care that have long been associated with cloth. Covering our bodies from birth to death through different methodologies and styles, the collection explores the various ways fabrics have always been used to tend to our bodies when they are in pain and their role in rituals such as mourning and healing.