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Art Basel Qatar is small and tightly structured. Other fairs should be jealous. With all galleries mounting solo presentations and strict limits on booth construction, the emphasis is on clear legibility. The best booths here do not compete for attention, but stand out because the artists have a striking vision.

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Maryam Hoseini at Green Art Gallery

Dubai’s Green Art Gallery presents a series of new paintings by Maryam Hoseini that unfold across three or four painted wood panels each. Rather than functioning as discrete images, the panels form continuous fields that stretch across the wall, with bodies and landscapes appearing, fragmenting, and reappearing as your eye moves from one section to the next.

Figures never resolve into a single form. Limbs repeat. Architectural elements press in. Landscapes drift in and out of focus. Orientation shifts from horizontal to vertical across panels, creating a sense of duration rather than direction. There’s a quietly erotic quality to the works. They seem abstract from far away but up close there’s … more. 

Hoseini’s work builds on her recent exhibition “Swells” at the gallery, but here the emphasis is on how images accumulate meaning through delay. Each panel acts as a pause point, allowing the composition to recalibrate before continuing. Bodies function both as figures and as structural elements, held within patterned surfaces that feel simultaneously sensual and restrictive.