From Maryam Hoseini’s carnal figures to Asunción Molinos Gordo’s research into agricultural histories, here’s what not to miss during Art Dubai
Hassan Sharif | Gallery Isabelle | 15 April – 31 May
Throughout his career, the late Hassan Sharif made work from found industrial objects and cheap, mass-produced goods in response to the post-oil explosion of consumer culture in the UAE. ‘The Storyteller’ revisits his ‘Objects’ series (1982–2016) via the lens of craft and gendered labour: the artist sometimes attributed his woven works to a female alter ego, Sharifa Hassan. Often dubbed the grandfather of contemporary art in the UAE, Sharif was a consummate storyteller. To this end, each work is accompanied by a text that unspools the backstory to its materiality and process, as well as the artist’s metanarrative: his framing of his entire oeuvre as a singular masterwork through an emphasis on accumulation, repetition and duration.
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