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Seher Shah

SEHER SHAH

Of Dust and Woven Air Green Art Gallery 4 February–5 April 2025 Dubai
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There is an unknown quality that materials hold by weaving histories and cultures speaking to each other. I thought of this material resonance when I first read Agha Shahid Ali’s poem, The Dacca Gauzes. His words evoked memories of my maternal family and the cities they inhabited; a cartography between the real and imagined. I found myself tracing lines across the subcontinent; connecting Chittagong to Chennai and Kochi and, across the Arabian Sea, to the port of Karachi. Cities connected by the memories of those whom I hold dear.

Memories, submerged in history, grasp for their own measurements of understanding. Of something no longer ours to hold.

Of Dust and Woven Air are studies into absence and memory through drawing, printmaking and poetry. A poetry of loss and erasure revealed in line, form and materiality on paper. Working with dust and its accumulations, I draw on Bengal muslin (gauze), the ethereal cloth of Agha Shahid Ali’s poem.

Seher Shah, 2025

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About the Artist

Working across drawing, printmaking, sculpture and writing, Seher Shah’s practice speaks to the poetics of how we perceive the landscape around us. Through the historical and intimate, and in between the architectural, political, and personal, she explores the abstraction of space through states of absence, fragility and fragmentation. Her studies on absence explore architectural perspective drawing traditions, fractured histories of objects and their erasure, alongside marks that retain the traces of time through real and imagined spaces. Working with variations of line, depth, and flatness, through graphite and ink, charcoal and dust, cast concrete and iron, her works are dedicated to the intimacy of mark-making through surfaces and their material weight.

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About the Gallery

Green Art Gallery is a contemporary art space featuring a multi-generational mix of artists whose practices are rigorously researched, idea-led, and representative of our current moment. The gallery now represents a multi-generational mix of artists from the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and beyond, including Turkish artists Hale Tenger and Hera Büyüktaşcıyan; Iranian artists Kamrooz Aram and Nazgol Ansarinia; and Shadi Habib Allah, Seher Shah, and Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck, who are Palestinian, Pakistani and Venezuelan respectively. In this geographic mix, the gallery reflects Dubai’s position as a cosmopolitan—as well as artistic—entrepôt, even as it boasts of a strong parallel Arab Modernist program.

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8 17th Street, Al Quoz
Alserkal Avenue, Unit 28
Dubai
United Arab Emirates
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Monday – Saturday
11am – 7pm
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Dubai 8 17th Street, Al Quoz, Alserkal Avenue, Unit 28
Green Art Gallery contemporary art gallery in Dubai United Arab Emirates
Green Art Gallery
8 17th Street, Al Quoz, Alserkal Avenue, Unit 28, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
+971 4 346 9305
http://www.gagallery.com/

Opening hours
Monday – Saturday
11am – 7pm
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