Dima Srouji, 'A Crack in the Water Followed by Return', 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Ab-Anbar Gallery.
'Figure–Ground' invites a critical interpretation of the hyphen within the title and its potential not only as a marker of division, but as a blur and friction-point. Here, boundaries loosen and binaries begin to fold. In this overlap, alternative readings of the past emerge. This reframing allows us to see the present not as fixed reality, but as shaped by what has been emphasised, silenced, or forgotten – opening space to question dominant narratives of the present.
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Dima Srouji, 'Phoenician Pigeons', 2020. Courtesy of the artist and Ab-Anbar Gallery.
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Pio Abad, 'Why don’t you put me in your pocket so that my blood will be mixed with the water at the bottom of the boat, and so that, perchance, I may be lost with you at sea', 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Ab-Anbar Gallery.
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Babak Kazemi, 'A Report for D’arcy', 2003-2011. Courtesy of the artist and Ab-Anbar Gallery.
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