TEXT ME - Group Summer Exhibition

Date:

21st May to 21st Jul 2012

Time:

10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Venue:

Lawrie Shabibi
Unit 21, Alserkal Avenue
Al-Quoz, Dubai
UAE
phone: +971 (0)4 346 9906
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See how seven talented contemporary artists from the Middle East, Iran and South Asia are incorporating text into their artworks.

TEXT ME looks at the unusual variety of ways that the current generation of contemporary artists from the Middle East, Iran and South Asia are incorporating text into their practice, breaking from the clichés concerning text based work in the broader region. In TEXT ME content and context are paramount - how the format and materials of the work and placement of words within it can affect the meaning of those words and give them an alternate connotation

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by Zainab AlRefaei

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