Editors from ArtReview direct art enthusiasts to the must-see exhibitions taking place globally during the month of May. With emotive commentary, editor Louise Benson provides an overview of Dima Srouji's Inaugural solo exhibition Charts for a Resurrection, on view at Lawrie Shabibi until July 6, 2024.
"In the work of Palestinian-born artist, architect and researcher Dima Srouji, who is interested in the role of ordinary objects in identity, place and displacement, another kind of imaginary archeological site is activated. At Lawrie Shabibi in her first solo exhibition, she displays partially excavated hand-blown glass vessels in a nine-square grid installation, as if the digging were midway through; the ghostly glass replicas made by the artist stand in for the original ‘grave goods’ pulled from ancient tombs by western archaeologists in Palestine and Egypt throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." READ MORE...
