The Seoul museum of Art and Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation present PROXIMITIES, spotlighting contemporary art from the United Arab Emirates.
PROXIMITIES features more than 40 UAE-based artists, including 33 Emiratis, across three generations – a Gulf nation shaped by the convergences of migration, natural abundance, and rapid urban transformation since its foundation half a century ago. Through three sections, collaboratively developed with artist-curators, the exhibition explores what happens when unstable and subjective worlds – personal, social, urban – come into contact. Scaling from the domestic and imaginary to the geopolitical and the elemental, the artists and curators ask how we can exist in nearness without collapsing into sameness.
