What's on - Efie Gallery
- Art Salon Team
- Jun 24
- 2 min read
Time Heals, Just Not Quick Enough...
Curated by Ose Ekore
1 JUN - 30 JUL 2025
"Time Heals, Just Not Quick Enough... brings together contemporary works in film and photography to explore the slow, fragmented, and often nonlinear processes of healing, memory, and transformation. These mediums–each inherently attuned to time–are employed not merely as tools of documentation, but as poetic instruments of reflection. The moving image, fluid and unfolding, captures time in motion; the still photograph, by contrast, arrests it in a single frame. These distinct modes of seeing offer complementary perspectives: one continuous, the other punctuated. Together, they echo the rhythms of memory, grief, resilience, and hope.
Rather than presenting time as a fixed or neutral backdrop, the exhibition approaches it as an active, volatile force–one that disrupts, lingers, accumulates, and resists closure. Time emerges not only as subject but as method: layered through archival material, invoked through personal and collective histories, and embedded in acts of refusal and repetition. Holding space for tensions–between visibility and opacity, rupture and repair, loss and renewal–the exhibition resists the urge for tidy conclusions. In a moment in history shaped by urgency, acceleration, and immediate gratification, this gathering of works insists on the importance of pause, of process, and of sitting with what remains unfinished. [...]" - Ose Ekore
About Efie Gallery
Efie Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Dubai specialising in the representation and advancement of artists of African origin, both from the African continent and its global diaspora.
Since its inception in 2021, and the opening of its permanent space in 2022 in Al Khayat Art Avenue, the gallery has been establishing itself as a global platform for some of Africa’s most significant artists.
Efie Gallery enables and supports cross-cultural exchange between Africa, the Middle East and beyond. In addition to its wide-ranging roster of artists and exhibitions, the gallery operates a dynamic residency programme that facilitates collaborations with local artists, institutions and community members, supporting artists in the narrative and vision of their work.
(Source: https://efiegallery.com/about-us/)
Opening hours: Monday – Saturday, 11 am – 7 pm
Closed from 6th July to 1 September 2024
Address: 19th Street – Al Quoz 1, Off First Al Khail Street
