The Arab Museum of Modern Art: Mathaf announced on its website that it will organise three new art exhibitions which run from October 27, 2023 to March 5, 2024, within the framework of the plan to inspire society for dialogue and research in the field of modern and contemporary art.
The first exhibition, 'Deconstructed Meanings,' is affiliated with the Project Space series and in co-operation with a group of artists, and the XLab at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar.
The exhibition focuses on a device that works like a writing machine in sand to showcase the development of linguistic interpretations. Using a programmed coding system, the device works to embody the text within the framework of Jacques Derrida's deconstructive theory. The participants are Hala Amer, Saja al-Kabash, Levi Hammett, and Giovanni Ignala.
The second exhibition, 'Distilled Lessons: Abstraction in Arab Modernism,' examines the abstract experiments that distinguish the Arab modernist school from its counterparts around the world. The third exhibition, 'Cities Under Quarantine,' the Artist’s Book project, includes documentation of life during the Covid-19 pandemic, as a declaration that friendships and social life can continue in the face of isolation.
It features 59 hand-made invitations sent to visual artists in 22 cities around the world, generating unprecedented momentum in expressing the state of human existence at the time of death and isolation.
