Mandy El-Sayegh, ‘A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose’, 2024, exhibition view. Courtesy: the artist and Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai; photograph: Ismail Noor of Seeing Things
Rahel Aima's guide directs art enthusiasts to the must-see exhibitions taking place during Art Dubai. With insightful commentary, she provides an overview of featured exhibitions and artists.
"At Lawrie Shabibi, the walls have been decoupaged with newsprint layered with screen printed textile swathes in peach and pea green. The red latex daubed floors look sticky with half-heartedly mopped up blood. This visceral, textured palette gives one the distinct sense of crawling into the centre of a fig. Against this backdrop hang Mandy El Sayegh’s large bricolage canvases."
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