The NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Artwork Gallery’s auxiliary venue, The Undertaking Area, will open its closing exhibition for the season, Symbiotic: Hyperreal, by Emirati artists and brothers Talal Al Najjar and Ziad Al Najjar, tomorrow, June 1, at 5:30pm. The exhibition will run for 2 weeks from Thursday, June 1 to Wednesday, June 14
Curated by Tala Nassar, Affiliate Supervisor of Curatorial Tasks at The NYUAD Artwork Gallery, Symbiotic: Hyperreal showcases the works of the artists, who create a high quality of simulation, unrealness, or hyperreality. Regardless of working intently collectively, the brothers keep a definite particular person follow, as they draw upon their relationship with their environment, significantly Dubai, the place they grew up.
The time period Symbiotic within the title describes the a number of dualities that manifest within the present: that of two brothers, that of the 2 cultures of their household of origin, and that of life within the UAE, with its attendant stress between custom and modernity. By their work, the artists seek for steadiness between their conventional Emirati heritage and the expertise of dwelling in trendy Dubai. The artists emulate this expertise of dualities by making use of historical motifs from numerous cultures to a recent context.
Nassar commented: “This exhibition is a becoming strategy to end what has been certainly one of our strongest and most thought-provoking seasons but at The Undertaking Area. Seen collectively, the works of Talal and Ziad Al Najjar create an arresting high quality of hyperreality, akin to the shortcoming to differentiate actuality from a simulation of actuality. From the second that the viewer enters the house, they’re watching however there may be additionally a way of being watched. This sensation expresses the expertise of our fraught actuality as we speak, mediated by algorithms, deep fakes, and synthetic intelligence, but in addition presents us a strategy to see this actuality from a brand new perspective that provides us extra management of the best way we reply to the pressures of recent applied sciences.”
The creation of twin realities is on the forefront of Talal and Ziad’s creative follow. Talal’s work tends to recontextualize transhistorical materials tradition and imagery with a counter-futurist lens. One such instance is his NauseaScape video collection, the place Talal creates his personal world from publicly accessible digital actuality excursions of Sharjah’s archaeological websites. In the meantime, Ziad’s work investigates the connection between people and the encompassing atmosphere, exploring the methods we observe, and the ways in which different dwelling beings observe us. An instance is his single-channel video titled Ameba, the place Ziad replicates and manipulates scenes of nature to summary the encompassing atmosphere, nearly as if the viewer is experiencing technical difficulties whereas observing nature.
Positioned in The Arts Heart and supported by the museum employees of The NYUAD Artwork Gallery, The Undertaking Area is a non-commercial gallery devoted to Abu Dhabi neighborhood initiatives. The Undertaking Area offers precedence to exhibitions from inside the tutorial and regional neighborhood, together with the annual Senior Capstone Competition, faculty-curated exhibitions, experimental initiatives, and the work of regional rising artists.
Exhibition Title: Symbiotic: Hyperreal
Exhibition Dates: June 1 to June 14, Tuesday by way of Sunday, 12-8pm
Opening reception: Thursday, June 1 at 5:30pm GST
Admission: Free
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