The exhibition deals with themes of language, body, and geography
Lamis Al-Beik sends a "message from under the feet" at "Dubai formation"
Miss Al-Beek exhibition is the culmination of a year-long research and development process that the artist undertook.
Photography: Patrick Castillo
Under the title "A Message From Under the Feet", the exhibition of the Palestinian artist Mays Al-Beek opened yesterday at the Tashkeel Center in Dubai, which brings together a series of diverse works of art, dealing with a multi-faceted relationship between the topics of language, body and geography, where the artist sheds light in her works that integrate In it letters, screens and technology, the dialectic of the relationship between the body, the earth and the language, and how the relationship between these three elements is formulated.
The exhibition program, which runs until February 28, includes free orientation tours, online dialogues, a book launch and an artist's workshop.
The artist's first solo exhibition is the culmination of the research and development process that Mays Al-Beek undertook for a year, as part of the Tashkeel program for critical practice - 2020 edition, under the supervision of mentors Alaa Younes and Lawrence Abu Hamdan.
Through interventions in space, sculptures and video works, the viewer can explore moments of connection between the self and the place, as the artist works on the issue of geographical space, physical locations, digital spaces or ancestral homelands, and how to form a sense of place, its reflection and refraction, through what mediates it, i.e. body and language. And their various overlaps.
The artist said to “Emirates Today”: “There is a plurality of places in our life. There are many places at one time, the place where we are now, the place where our loved ones are, and the place where we grew up, and we also practice this plurality, through constant contact with the field. Digital, as there is no longer a gateway, our screens have become places in themselves. ”
She pointed out that the exhibition raises many questions within the trilogy of the relationship between body, language and place, as the exhibition started from the idea of how to build a relationship with places, and how we can compare them, both in terms of space and space, and how we attach feelings to them, so the beginning of interest and questions were the seeds of how there Close relationships with places where bodies did not exist, as close relationships to places are built through language, because our existence is not permanently and continuously entrenched in them.
She pointed out that the program began in light of the Corona pandemic, and therefore the multiplicity of places and experiences and how to discover places are part of it is how we occupy the space of the virtual place, and it is a proof of how to exist in more than one place at the same time.
She pointed out that it consolidates the concept of places through its relationship with language, through works on screens, in which many vocabulary and meanings are presented.
Launch a book
During the exhibition, the artist Mais Al-Beik will be launching a book that includes a small selection of ideas, conversations and contributions by the program's mentors Alaa Yunus, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, artist Moaz Mesbahi and writer Nadine Khalil, in addition to a dialogue with the assistant professor of literature and creative writing at New York University Abu Dhabi, Deepak Unikrishnan.
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