Gallery Sarah to represent Oman at Art Dubai 2016

Muscat: As the leading international contemporary art fair for the Middle East and South Asia, Art Dubai has become the essential gathering place for collectors, artists and art professionals from across the region and beyond.
Art Dubai 2016 is being heralded as the most internationally diverse edition to date, with galleries from Ghana, Lithuania, Oman, Palestine, and Sri Lanka, participating for the first time.
Gallery Sarah will be participating this year with the work of Oman-born artist Radhika Khimji to represent the Gallery at Art Dubai Contemporary.
Radhika graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in 2005. Previous solo exhibitions include B-Sides at Nature Morte Gallery in India (2009), Safe landings at Barka Castle in Oman (2010), Found Gesture at the Katara art Centre in Qatar (2012). Her work was also part of the Jogja Biennale (2013), Fragments 2 at Gallery Sarah (2014), the 4th Ghetto Biennale, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti (2015) and more recently at 6th Marrakesh Biennale, Marrakesh, Morocco (2016).
Khimji’s work is lodged at a crossroads between multiple polarities. It is at once a painting, a drawing and a collage; it’s also an embroidery and a sculpture. By combining all of these elements, images overlap with one another to create strange, new hybrids. Her work is also informed primarily by the materiality and physicality of the making process. Existing in a state of transit, these works inhabit a space of movement and change. They reflect upon displacement and identity as a way to render them abstract from their loaded histories.
The tenth edition of Art Dubai will take place from March 16-19, 2016, at Madinat Jumeirah. Besides the gallery halls, the fair’s extensive programme includes commissioned projects and performances, artists’ and curators’ residencies, educational workshops, the unveiling of works by the winners of the annual Abraaj Group Art Prize and the critically acclaimed Global Art Forum.
Art Dubai has become a cornerstone of the region’s fast-growing contemporary arts community. Recognised as one of the most globalised meeting points in the art world today, Art Dubai places an emphasis on maintaining its intimate, human scale while foregrounding quality and diversity.
This year, for the first time, Gallery Sarah will be representing Oman at the prestigious fair. Located in the historical part of Old Muscat and part of the Bait Al Zubair Museum complex, Gallery Sarah is a unique contemporary art gallery which opened its doors in 2013. The gallery exhibits artworks including, but not limited to, paintings, graphics, calligraphy, installations, sculpture and photography. Apart from trying to create a strong connection between established and emerging Omani artists and the international art world, Gallery Sarah also supports and appreciates work by a wide variety of talented Arab artists from around the Gulf and international artists.
Art Dubai is scheduled to be held in Madinat Jumeirah, UAE from the 16th of March for invitation holders and from the 17th of March till the 19th of March for the public.
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