Artist’s Rooms - a Women’s Edition

The Artist’s Rooms of the Jameel Arts Centre are personal exhibitions created in collaboration and in dialogue with the artists to promote talents from the Middle East, Asia and Africa. The new edition is comprised of exclusively female talents. Besides Daniele Genadry, the other two artists on display are Ayesha Sultana and Risham Syed. Born in 1984 in Dhakah, Bangladesh, Ayesha Sultana offers recent paintings and works on paper. Works that highlight the long-standing commitment of the artist to the materials and iconography of her birthplace, observations on form but also materials, movement and distance - key aspects of Sultana’s creations. The Seven Seas (2012) by Risham Syed consists, meanwhile, in a series of large quilts which depict maps from the XX Century of strategic port cities, such as Izmir, Mumbai and Ras al-Khaimah. The quilts were created by combining various methods and using fabrics gathered during journeys through Turkey, Bangladesh, the United Arab Emirates, Sri Lanka, the United Kingdom, India and the country of her birth, Pakistan. A stratification of materials and techniques which connect contemporary geopolitical complexities with the cotton trade of the British Empire of the XIX Century and start of the XX Century.