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Evil is Banal | 2024
Evil is Banal | 2024

Nour Malas

Evil is Banal

4 FEB – 5 APR 2025

CARBON 12 is pleased to announce Nour Malas's first solo exhibition with the gallery 'Evil is Banal', opening February 4th, 2024. 


The violent conditions that structure the societies we navigate are both insidious and immense, permeating everyday life and exceeding what is imagined to be possible by human actions. And yet trauma is embedded in the routine of living, often stretching the limits of the body and psyche. In her latest body of work, Evil is Banal, Nour Malas attends to the intimate frictions of the mundane alongside the profuse violence that for many has become a perpetual reality. Drawing on a palette steeped in the familiar, Malas turns to the color resonances of her daily life, an interweaving of earthy browns, reds, and greens. Through gestural marks that build layers and hold space, she moves between the potential of dense surfaces to generate glimpses of humor and human presence on canvas with the vulnerability of being made bare across linen. Trusting intuition, Malas beckons the viewer to enter into their own subconscious, meditating on the balance we each negotiate between our fragile selves and a world that so often feels like too much.     



About Carbon 12

CARBON 12 was established in 2008, initiating a comprehensive, firmly global, program of institution-grade artists. Internationally active, CARBON 12 continuously introduces and promotes both established and emerging artists to the UAE contemporary art scene, supplementing its 5-6 annual exhibitions with diverse contextual activities including publications and talks that actively engage the public and educational institutions. The playful, organic process that constitutes the creative production of CARBON 12’s artist base is facilitated and mirrored by its location in Al Quoz.


 

Opening hours: Monday – Saturday, 11:30am – 7pm

Address: Unit 37, Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz 1

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