COLLECTION: in-habit

Artist-as-researcher in the contemporary Gulf sees the impact of these external forces on their practice, and how their practice is perceived and incorporated into wider cultural settings. This exhibition is a culmination of the three territories that were studied and observed; they explore the structural tectonics of how lived environments segment and enforce class distinction. They turn kitchen table cloths into a codex of emancipation. They knit, weave and repeat, studying themselves and the universe, the essence of existence alongside their own insecurities. They are insiders and outsiders, being and doing, celebrated and opposed, with forces around them extracting and discarding.

The body of work showcased in this exhibition by Dima Abou Zannad, Sultan AlRemeithi and Sarah Al Saman is an ongoing dismantlement of the artists’ thought process. Layers to the investigation remain, within the definition of confession, the cladded rough walls of upmarket buildings and the silent horizon between sea and space.