Ishara Art Foundation Hosts Art Exhibition

Ishara Art Foundation, a non-profit foundation based in Dubai, that covers contemporary art practices from a South Asian context, will be holding an exhibition from January 20 to May 20, 2021. This exhibition marks Sohrab Hura’s inaugural curatorial project as a photographer and filmmaker, along with the presentation of several artists and collectives never before shown institutionally in a regional and international context. The exhibition will include a showcase of 14 artists, photographers and collectives from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Germany, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Singapore, including Farah Mulla, Sean Lee, Munem Wasif and archival photography by Nepal Picture Library that looks at the representation of women in public space. As the first institutional showcase for many of the artists and the first curatorial venture by Sohrab Hura, the exhibition, ‘Growing Like a Tree’ reveals a network of collaborations across geographies, where a strong sense of community and exchange emerges in contemporary lens-based practices. The artists tackle themes such as ‘our interconnectedness with the environment, changing cities, the politics of exclusion, collective memory, public space and the archive’. It gestures towards multiple nodes that comprise a constellation of entanglements, of being a solitary artist in a shared world held captive by the moment.

The ensemble of artists and collectives in the exhibition includes Aishwarya Arumbakkam, Anjali House, Bunu Dhungana, Farah Mulla, Jaisingh Nageswaran, Katrin Koenning, Munem Wasif, Nida Mehboob, Nepal Picture Library, Reetu Sattar, Sarker Protick, Sathish Kumar, Sean Lee, and Yu Yu Myint Than, along with site-specific interventions by Sohrab Hura. It will be accompanied by physical and virtual tours, educational and public online programmes, newly commissioned artist texts and artist conversations over the duration of the show.