AB Gallery is proud to announce the participation of two AB Gallery artists at this year's Venice Biennale.

Mohammed Kazem shows a work from his series ‚Directions’ at the national pavilion of the UAE. Reem Fadda states: "By engaging the work of Kazem, we can witness the urban modernity of an emerging nation through the eyes of its individual artists. In pursuing this initiative we hope to demonstrate that the developments we see in the region today do not come from a void, but rather evolve from the contemporary thought and practice of artists and intellectuals like Kazem, whose work has consistently interrogated the relationship between the individual and his/her social, urban, and natural environments." More infos here

Khaled Hafez presents his work ,Drowning: On Noise, Sound and Silence’ at the national pavilion of the Maldives. According to the artist, the work „proposes the island as metaphor for the transience of memory, steadily submerged with the passage of time and loss of resolution in the mind.The visual and sculptural elements in this work evoke a poetic voyage through the black box of recollection, that repository of experience, nostalgia and travel that accumulates within each of us as we pass from childhood, into adolescence and adulthood. Like islands sinking into the sea, time threatens with the slow extinction of those defining elements that make up the self. The fragility of the island is the fragility of memory.“ More infos here

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