Art exhibition at the Quench Gallery in Cliftonville, Margate.
Open: Friday - Sunday 12pm - 6pm (or by appointment)
The exhibition will be an exploration into the architecture and design decisions made when constructing an international border. Through abstraction, scenes become intersected with queer boldly entanglements and forms of self expression. The show combining painting, sculpture and sound will focus on borders between Palestine and the wider Middle East.
Inspired by artist and writer William Blake, The works will act as a type of third space for reimagining Palestine in a post border environment connected to the wider world. Depicting border structures as discontinued or abandoned. Yellow acts as a dominant colour in the exhibition referring to the sun as a unifying factor connecting both western and Arab environments.
Gaby Sahhar is a French-Palestinian artist working between London and Paris; their rejection of binaries is reflected in a multi-disciplinary practice that spans painting, video and installation. It is an ongoing concern of Sahhar to deconstruct representations of queerness within the public sphere, considering the impact of this representation on queer consciousness and communities. Sahhar aims to generate dialogue around migration, value systems and affordability within city cultures. Through speculative storytelling their work illustrates the various ways psychological and physical frameworks fragment Palestinian geopolitical borders and identity.
Gaby Sahhar; Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2023, MAC VAL, Paris, 2023; PAGE (NYC), New York, 2022; Sadie Coles HQ, London, 2022, SPACE Awards, 2021. BFI London Film festival, 2019, Forthcoming exhibitions include Arab World Institute, Paris, Magasins Généraux, Paris Spiaggia Libera Gallery, Paris
Free entry
Address
Everywhere And Nowhere - Gaby Sahhar
Quench Gallery, Cliftonville Ave, Cliftonville, Margate
CT9 2AH
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