Ishara Art Foundation presents No Trespassing, their first summer exhibition. Curated by Priyanka Mehra, the show channels the aesthetics of the streets into a white cube space. Through distinct practices, six UAE-based and South Asian artists explore their relationship with the street, engaging with it as both subject and medium. Rather than attempting to define the street, the exhibition underlines its resistance to definition. More than simply a setting, it is a collection of individual experiences that alternate between chaotic and orderly, gritty and beautiful, uninhibited and curated. Signposts, building materials, pavements, lights, street art, scrapheaps and human traces become inscriptions of a city’s movement. Featuring works by H11235 (Kiran Maharjan), Rami Farook, Fatspatrol (Fathima Mohiuddin), Sara Alahbabi, Khaled Esguerra and Salma Dib, No Trespassing looks at the streets as a site of deconstruction and reinvention, continually shaping and being shaped by those who pass through them.
Find out more about the show here.