1497, Installation view at Green Art Gallery, Dubai, 2016
Although the first month of the year is generally a quiet time of regrouping and planning for the months ahead, Dubai has been a hub of activity and festivity, as a number of galleries inaugurated new spaces on Alserkal Avenue this January.
At Green Gallery, the group exhibition “1497” features Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Gitanjali Dang, Shilpa Gupta, Raja’a Khalid, Jacob Lawrence, Matheus Rocha Pitta, UBIK, Deepak Unnikrishnan and Danh Vo. Curated by Lantian Xie, it presents a range of works composed of tactile evidence, from Shilpa Gupta’s images drawn with stitches on paper to Danh Vo’s letters handwritten by his father, Phung Vo.