Introductory Tour at Sofia Khawaja's Exhibition in the United Arab Emirates from Tashkeel Foundation

Tashkeel presents an introductory tour of Sofia Khawaja's exhibition in the United Arab Emirates, which revolves around the strengths. This private tour will give you the opportunity to learn about the work of Sofia Khawaja's first solo exhibition in the UAE, Residues of Power, which explores five different types of individual power. The exhibition includes works that are related in their themes, but they vary greatly in terms of sizes, ideas, and artistic tools; It can be divided into five different series through which the artist explores concepts of ambition, beauty, perseverance, and language.

This private tour will help you:

• An exploration of modern stereotypes of women and the expectations associated with them.
• An exploration of the spaces and places traditionally inhabited by women and the different ways, tricks, lies, compromises, attitudes, and personalities they adopt to navigate them.
• Through a character who is part small-town girl, part singer, with a bit of Detective M (James Bond), the works presented in the exhibition will analyze themes of family, politics, hierarchy, power struggles, desire, and midlife crisis.

• This tour will be from 11 am to 12 pm on May 21, 2023.
• Everyone can participate in this tour.

About Tashkeel:

Founded by Latifa bint Maktoum in Dubai in 2008, Tashkeel provides an incubating environment for the development of contemporary art and design practices rooted in the UAE. The Center provides space for creative and experimental practice and dialogue between practitioners and the community at large, multidisciplinary studios, workspaces, and exhibitions in Nad Al Sheba and Al Fahidi. Tashkeel adopts an open membership model and its annual program of internships, residencies, workshops, discussions, exhibitions, international collaborations, and publications aims to support the development of artistic practitioners, community engagement, and lifelong learning as well as the creative and cultural industries.

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