Installation view, Ishmael Randall-Weeks, Desert Displacements, 11 Jan - 9 Feb 2024. Photo by Ismail Noor of Seeing Things. Courtesy of the artist and Lawrie Shabibi.
Representing a South American artist in a fellow underrepresented region is very telling of where Dubai’s place in the arts is headed: compressing the distances between “Global South” artists and their foreign audiences without a need for intermediaries north of Mexico or Morocco.
Daniel H. Rey writes about the second solo exhibition by Perúvian artist Ishmael Randall-Weeks at the gallery.
