BOUND: TEXTILES BETWEEN
LOSS AND REPAIR
GROUP SHOW
Dana Awartani, Jumana Manna, Hana Miletić, Dala Nasser and Khalil Rabah
18 SEP – 2 NOV 2024
The last in a series of exhibitions investigating contemporary approaches to fiber art curated by Murtaza Vali, Bound: Textiles Between Loss and Repair builds on notions of nurture and care long associated with cloth, which envelopes our bodies from our first breath to our last. Bringing together works by Dana Awartani, Jumana Manna, Hana Miletić, Dala Nasser and Khalil Rabah, Bound explores the importance of fabric in how we tend to bodies in pain, and the key role it plays in rituals and processes of both mourning and healing. Largely abstract, these works—through their facture, form, and materiality—recall both shrouds and bandages, blurring distinctions between our experience of loss or injury and our capacity for recovery and renewal. The absent body evoked in and by these works extends beyond the individual and/or the human to the collective, to the body politic, to landscape and nature, and to architecture and urban space.
About Green. Art. Gallery
Throughout its storied history as a gallery that has been active in the Middle East for nearly four decades, Green Art Gallery has had the privilege of bearing witness to the tremendous transformations that the regional art scene has seen. In its earliest iteration as Ornina in 1987, the gallery functioned as an exhibition space above a small bookstore in Homs, Syria that was an important gathering space for intellectuals, critics, and artists of the time. In 1995 in Dubai, Green Art opened in a small Jumeirah villa as an intimate salon d’art that continued its dedication to Arab Modernism while still emphasising the critical discourse that shaped its earlier days. Exhibitions in these nascent days included artists who would later become today’s modern Arab masters, including Fateh Moudarres, Dia Azzawi, Paul Guiragossian, and Ismail Fattah.
Now in its second generation and newest form, Green Art Gallery relaunched in 2010 as a contemporary art space. Its program features artists working across diverse media, whose practices are rigorously researched, idea-led, and representative of our current moment. The gallery now represents a multi-generational mix of artists from the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and beyond, including Turkish artists Hale Tenger and Hera Büyüktaşcıyan; Iranian artists Kamrooz Aram and Nazgol Ansarinia; and Shadi Habib Allah, Seher Shah, and Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck, who are Palestinian, Pakistani and Venezuelan respectively. In this geographic mix, the gallery reflects Dubai’s position as a cosmopolitan—as well as artistic—entrepôt, even as it boasts of a strong parallel Arab Modernist program.
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