Alserkal Art Week Weaves Memory into Motion
- Editor @ La Page M
- Apr 15, 2025
- 1 min read
Alserkal Art Week returns with a program that defines a new rhythm in contemporary art. Under the theme A Wild Stitch, this year’s edition assembles artists, writers, and performers who challenge the seams between memory, resistance, and identity—offering a space for ambiguity, for multiplicity, and for alternative perspectives to take root.
The central exhibition, Vanishing Points by Imran Qureshi at Concrete, is a visual mosaic of past and present, drawing on the traditions of Indo-Persian miniature painting. Through photography, video, and installation, Qureshi collapses scale and perspective, turning the city into a surface of overlapping temporalities—a place where Mughal motifs meet modern noise.
Beyond the walls of the galleries, public art commissions curated by Fatoş Üstek stretch across the Avenue under the title Between a Beach and Slope, invoking the poetry of Nujoom Alghanem. Works like Still They Know Not What I Dream by Shilpa Gupta reframe the city’s light, language, and space, questioning how public narratives are shaped.
Majlis Talks, guest projects, and gallery openings from artists such as Maryam Hoseini, Reynier Llanes, and María Magdalena Campos-Pons deepen this sense of unruly coherence.
