In this time when so many are disproportionately affected, global self-examination has become more necessary. The creative milieu, markedly for artists’ reflection has always formed an invaluable space through which to examine the reality of the everyday. This intensity has come to inform a journey which many describe as soul-searching, accompanied by sense-making as methodology.

The exhibition, Care: After the Immediate, curated by Shaheen Merali, relativises the paradigmatic significance of diverse interpretations of struggles, and experiences including difficult synopses through visual culture . The purpose is for the audience to get closer in matching interests to something or someone which exists in the selected works of art. The consequence has been the channelling of context, compelling viewers to consider the attention of their own position alongside information they might have encountered in printed material as well as sense-making (interpretation) in contemporary art.

International Art Gallery (IAG),
July 20-27 2025
World Trade Centre Dubai, UAE