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No Scheherazade is Farhad Ahrania’s much anticipated fourth solo exhibition at the gallery, a multi-textual autopsy which invariably examines the complex legacy of Princess Diana, Keith Haring and celebrates all things 80s. Both huge celebrities of the time, Keith Haring and Diana embodied and contained the aesthetics of the era.
Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai, presents Molding Anew, Rand Abdul Jabbar’s (b. 1990, Baghdad) first solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition builds on her recent commission for Desert X Alula, where myths are born of mud and desire (2024), staging an interplay between narrative and sculpture to explore myth-making as a method of preservation and transformation.
Lawrie Shabibi will be closed for the summer from 3 August to 18 August, 2024.
It will open doors again with an exciting Autumn programme of exhibitions and art fairs.
For Artissima, Lawrie Shabibi is pleased to present When Earth Breathes, an opportunity to explore the artistic journey of Jordanian sculptor Mona Saudi (1945~2022).
Lawrie Shabibi announces the much-anticipated exhibition Tethys by renowned Lebanese American artist Nabil Nahas, in conjunction with the grand reopening of our gallery space. The exhibition, scheduled to run from 30 October to 5 January, 2024, will take the viewer on a journey through the boundless world of colour, texture, and imagination.
Lawrie Shabibi is pleased to announce its participation in Frieze Masters 2023 in the Spotlight section curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver, presenting artworks by Mehdi Moutashar (b. 1943, Iraq). The section will feature solo presentations of 20th-century artists, emphasising under-appreciated work from the 1950s to the 1970s.
