Today's Edition
ABU DHABI (ALETIHAD)
NYUAD Art Gallery is set to unveil “Rusting Echoes” in the Project Space, with the opening reception to be held on Thursday, January 15, and the exhibition running until February 15.
Curated by Sarrah Bashir, an Abu Dhabi-based art educator and researcher, the exhibition brings together four artists: Yoshi (Aisha Al Ali), Ammar Al Banna, Ahmed Al Kuwaiti, and Shaikha Al Shamsi, whose practices converge around a shared contemplation of time, not as something fixed but as something embodied and felt.
The artists approach time as both an emotional and material presence, one that lingers in memory, process, and form. They reflect on how time manifests quietly through change, decay, and resonance, revealing both impermanence and continuity in the marks it leaves.
The title, Rusting Echoes, embodies this dual focus. Rust evokes the slow transformation of materials, the visible trace of endurance and erosion, a metaphor for how experience shapes surfaces, bodies and memory.
Echoes represent the reverberations of those traces, the lingering after-sounds of actions, gestures and emotions. Together, rust and echoes frame the exhibition as a meditation on accumulation, how experiences, labour and care leave subtle, enduring marks that persist beyond immediate perception.
Across their practices, the artists engage in slow, process-driven methods that register time through touch, material and repetition.
Their works inhabit a space between making and becoming, where the passage of time is cyclical and reflective. Rusting Echoes invites viewers to attune to these quiet transformations, sensing time as texture, movement, and resonance in what fades, persists, and returns.
Meanwhile, Sunday, January 18, is the last day to see “Ala Younis: Past of a Temporal Universe” at the NYUAD Art Gallery.
Younis’ projects centre on the physical developments and narrative intersections of the Arab geographies in which she grew up, frequently drawing from a wide range of formal and informal archives.
Her exhibition spans the last two decades of her hybrid practice as an artist-researcher-curator, and her works take the form of installations, textiles, murals, mosaics and drawings.
NYUAD exhibitions and events are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Tuesday to Sunday, 12–8pm.
