E-Issue 07 –– AUH
Winter 2023-24

January 29th, 2024



  1. Editor’s Note
  2. What’s On in Abu Dhabi/Dubai
  3. Cover Interview: Shaikha Al Ketbi on Darawan
  4. Rapport: Public Art in the Gulf and a Case Study of Manar Abu Dhabi
  5. Hashel Al Lamki’s Survey Exhibition Maqam Reflects on a Decade of Practice in Abu Dhabi
  6. “You Can’t Stand on a Movement”: Michelangelo Pistoletto Interviews Benton Interviewing Pistoletto

E-07++
Winter/Spring 2024



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Artist Interview November 18th, 2016
AUH Raed Yassin in Abu Dhabi

Editorial March 1st, 2018
AUH Abu Dhabi Is The New Calabasas

Exhibition Listing May 22nd, 2018
DXB Christopher Benton: If We Don't Reclaim Our History, The Sand Will

Artist Interview June 15th, 2018
TYO An Interview with BIEN, a Rising Japanese Artist

Artist Interview July 17th, 2018
TYO Rintaro Fuse on Selfies and Cave Painting

Artist Interview August 28th, 2018
BER Slavs and Tatars: “Pulling a Thread to Undo The Sweater”

Artist Interview September 1st, 2018
NYC Shirin Neshat In Conversation with Sophie Arni and Ev Zverev

Artist Interview September 1st, 2018
PAR Hottest Spices: Michèle Lamy

E-Issue 01 –– AUH/DXB
Summer 2020

August 1st, 2020



  1. Editor’s Note
  2. What’s On in the UAE
  3. Pop(Corn): Hashel Al Lamki
  4. Tailoring in Abu Dhabi
  5. Rapport: Dubai
  6. Michael Rakowitz From the Diaspora


E-01++
Fall/Winter 2020-21


Artist Interview August 23rd, 2020
LHR/MCT Hanan Sultan Rhymes Frankincense with Minimalism


Artist Interview August 24th, 2020
DXB Augustine Paredes Taking Up Space

Artist Interview August 26th, 2020
AUH Sarah Almehairi Initiates Conversations

Market Interview August 28th, 2020
AUH/DXB 101 Pioneers Ethical and Curious Art Collecting


Exhibition September 1st, 2020
DXB Alserkal Arts Foundation Presents Mohamed Melehi


Market Interview September 4th, 2020
DXB Meet Tamila Kochkarova Behind ‘No Boys Allowed’


Artist Interview September 7th, 2020
DXB Taaboogah Infuses Comedy Into Khaleeji Menswear

Artist Interview September 10th, 2020
LHR/CAI Alaa Hindia’s Jewelry Revives Egyptian Nostalgia

Curator Interview September 14th, 2020
UAE Tawahadna Introduces MENA Artists to a Global Community

Exhibition Review September 24th, 2020
MIA a_part Gives Artists 36 Hours to React


Artist Interview September 27th, 2020
AUH BAIT 15 Welcomes New Member Zuhoor Al Sayegh

Market Interview October 14th, 2021
DXB Thaely Kicks Off Sustainable Sneakers


Exhibition Review October 19th, 2020
DXB Do You See Me How I See You?


Exhibition October 22nd, 2020
TYO James Jarvis Presents Latest Collages at 3110NZ


Exhibition Review October 22nd, 2020
AUH Ogamdo: Crossing a Cultural Highway between Korea and the UAE


Book Review October 28th, 2020
DAM Investigating the Catalogues of the National Museum of Damascus


Exhibition Review November 13th, 2020
DXB
Kanye Says Listen to the Kids: Youth Takeover at Jameel Arts Centre


Exhibition Review November 16th, 2021
DXB Melehi’s Waves Complicate Waving Goodbye


Exhibition Review November 19th, 2020
DXB Spotlight on Dubai Design Week 2020


Exhibition Review November 21st, 2020
DXB 101 Strikes Again with Second Sale at Alserkal Avenue


Exhibition Review
November 23rd, 2020


AUH SEAF Cohort 7 at Warehouse 421


Exhibition Review December 9th, 2020
SHJ Sharjah Art Foundation Jets Ahead on the Flying Saucer


Curator Interview January 25th, 2021
DXB Sa Tahanan Collective Redefines Home for Filipino Artists


Exhibition Review February 21st, 2021
GRV MIA Anywhere Hosts First Virtual Exhibition of Female Chechen Artists  

🎙️GAD Talk Series –– Season 1 2020


November 1st, 2020
1. What is Global Art Daily? 2015 to Now

November 16th, 2020
2. Where is Global Art Daily? An Open Coversation on Migration as Art Practitioners


November 29th, 2020
3. When the Youth Takes Over: Reflecting on the 2020 Jameel Arts Centre Youth Takeover

December 20th, 2020
4. Young Curators in Tokyo: The Making of The 5th Floor

January 27th, 2021
5. How To Create Digital Networks in The Art World?

E-Issue 02 –– NYC
Spring 2021

February 21st, 2021



  1. Editor’s Note
  2. What’s On in NYC
  3. Pop(Corn): Zeid Jaouni
  4. You Can Take The Girl Out Of The City
  5. Rapport: NYC
  6. Kindergarten Records Discuss The Future of Electronic Music
  7. Sole DXB Brings NY Hip-Hop To Abu Dhabi
  8. Wei Han Finds ‘Home’ In New York
  9. Vikram Divecha: Encounters and Negotiations

E-02++
Spring/Summer 2021

Exhibition Review March 3rd, 2021
DXB There’s a Hurricane at the Foundry


Exhibition Review March 7th, 2021
AUH Re-viewing Contrasts: Hyphenated Spaces at Warehouse421


Curator Interview March 21st, 2021
DXB Permeability and Regional Nodes: Sohrab Hura on Curating Growing Like a Tree at Ishara Art Foundation


Exhibition March 28th, 2021
DXB Alserkal Art Week Top Picks


Exhibition Review April 1st, 2021
DXB A ‘Menu Poem’ and All That Follows


Exhibition Review April 5th, 2021
DXB A Riot Towards Landscapes


Exhibition April 16th, 2021
RUH Noor Riyadh Shines Light on Saudi Arabia’s 2030 Art Strategy


Artist Interview April 26th, 2021
CTU/AUH/YYZ Sabrina Zhao: Between Abu Dhabi, Sichuan, and Toronto


Exhibition Review April 27th, 2021
TYO BIEN Opens Two Solo Exhibitions in Island Japan and Parcel


Artist Interview April 28th, 2021
DXB Ana Escobar: Objects Revisited


Exhibition May 9th, 2021
LDN Fulfilment Services Ltd. Questions Techno-Capitalism on Billboards in London


Artist Interview May 11th, 2021
BAH Mihrab: Mysticism, Devotion, and Geo-Identity


Curator Interview May 20th, 2021
DXB There Is A You In The Cloud You Can’t Delete: A Review of “Age of You” at Jameel Arts Centre

Market Interview May 26th, 2021
TYO Startbahn, Japan’s Leading Art Blockchain Company, Builds a New Art Infrastructure for the Digital Age

Exhibition June 11th, 2021
TYO “Mimicry of Hollows” Opens at The 5th Floor


Exhibiton Review June 20th, 2021
AUH “Total Landscaping”at Warehouse 421


Artist Interview June 30th, 2021
OSA Rintaro Fuse Curates “Silent Category” at Creative Center Osaka


Exhibition Review August 9th, 2021
DXB “After The Beep”: A Review and Some Reflections

E-Issue 03 ––TYO
Fall 2021

October 1st, 2022



  1. Editor’s Note
  2. What’s On in TYO
  3. Pop(Corn): Nimyu
  4. Ahmad The Japanese: Bady Dalloul on Japan and Belonging
  5. Rapport: Tokyo
  6. Alexandre Taalba Redefines Virtuality at The 5th Floor
  7. Imagining Distant Ecologies in Hypersonic Tokyo: A Review of “Floating Between the Tropical and Glacial Zones”
  8. Ruba Al-Sweel Curates “Garden of e-arthly Delights” at SUMAC Space
  9. Salwa Mikdadi Reflects on the Opening of NYU Abu Dhabi’s Arab Center for the Study of Art

E-03++
Fall/Winter 2021-22


Market Interview October 6th, 2021
RUH HH Prince Fahad Al Saud Discusses Saudi Arabia’s Artistic Renaissance


Exhibition October 7th, 2021
RUH Misk Art Institute’s Annual Flagship Exhibition Explores the Universality of Identity


Curator Interview October 15th, 2021
IST “Once Upon a Time Inconceivable”: A Review and a Conversation


Exhibition Review October 16th, 2021
AUH Woman as a Noun, and a Practice: “As We Gaze Upon Her” at Warehouse421



Exhibition Review February 11th, 2022

Artist Interview February 26th, 2022
TYO Akira Takayama on McDonald’s Radio University, Heterotopia, and Wagner Project


Artist Interview March 10th, 2022
DXB Prepare The Ingredients and Let The Rest Flow: Miramar and Zaid’s “Pure Data” Premieres at Satellite for Quoz Arts Fest 2022


Exhibition March 11th, 2022
DXB Must-See Exhibitions in Dubai - Art Week Edition 2022


Exhibition Review March 14th, 2022
DXB Art Dubai Digital, An Alternative Art World?

E-Issue 04 –– IST
Spring 2022

March 15th, 2022



  1. Editor’s Note
  2. What’s On in IST
  3. Pop(Corn): Refik Anadol
  4. Rapport: Istanbul
  5. Independent Spaces in Istanbul: Sarp Özer on Operating AVTO

E-04++
Spring/Summer 2022


Curator Interview March 21st, 2022

Market Interview March 28th, 2022
DXB Dubai's Postmodern Architecture: Constructing the Future with 3dr Models


Exhibition April 23rd, 2022
HK Startbahn Presents “Made in Japan 3.0: Defining a New Phy-gital Reality”, an NFT Pop-Up at K11 Art Mall


Exhibition May 6th, 2022
IST
Istanbul’s 5533 Presents Nazlı Khoshkhabar’s “Around and Round”


Artist Interview May 13th, 2022
DXB
“We Are Witnessing History”: Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian On Their Retrospective Exhibition at NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery

Artist Interview June 13th, 2022
DXB “Geometry is Everywhere”: An Interview and Walking Tour of Order of Magnitude, Jitish Kallat’s Solo Exhibition at Dubai’s Ishara Art Foundation


Exhibition June 21st, 2022
DXB Art Jameel Joins The World Weather Network in a Groundbreaking Response to Global Climate Crisis

Exhibition June 27th, 2022
UAE
What’s On in the UAE: Our Top Summer Picks

Curator Interview July 9th, 2022
IST Creating an Artist Books Library in Istanbul: Aslı Özdoyuran on BAS

E-Issue 05 –– VCE
Fall 2022

September 5th, 2022



  1. Editor’s Note
  2. What’s On in VCE
  3. Pop(Corn): UAE National Pavilion
  4. Rapport: Venice
  5. Zeitgeist of our Time: Füsun Onur for the Turkish Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale
  6. GAD’s Top Picks: National Pavilions
  7. Strangers to the Museum Wall: Kehinde Wiley’s Venice Exhibition Speaks of Violence and Portraiture
  8. Questioning Everyday Life: Alluvium by Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian at OGR Torino in Venice

E-05++
Fall/Winter 2022-23


Market Interview June 28th, 2022
HK
How Pearl Lam Built Her Gallery Between China and Europe


Exhibition November 11th, 2022
TYO
“Atami Blues” Brings Together UAE-Based and Japanese Artists in HOTEL ACAO ANNEX


Exhibition December 2nd, 2022
TYO Wetland Lab Proposes Sustainable Cement Alternative in Tokyo

Artist Interview December 9th, 2022
DXB Navjot Altaf Unpacks Eco-Feminism and Post-Pandemic Reality at Ishara Art Foundation

Artist Interview January 8th, 2023
TYO Shu Yonezawa and the Art of Animation

Artist Interview January 19th, 2023
NYC Reflecting on Her Southwestern Chinese Bai Roots, Peishan Huang Captures Human Traces on Objects and Spaces

Exhibition Review February 9th, 2023
DXB Augustine Paredes Builds His Paradise Home at Gulf Photo Plus

Artist Interview February 22nd, 2023
DXB Persia Beheshti Shares Thoughts on Virtual Worlds and the State of Video Art in Dubai Ahead of Her Screening at Bayt Al Mamzar

E-Issue 06 –– DXB/SHJ
Spring 2023

April 12th, 2023



  1. Editor’s Note
  2. What’s On in the UAE
  3. Pop(Corn): Jumairy
  4. Rapport: Art Dubai 2023
  5. Highlights from Sharjah Biennial 15
  6. Is Time Just an Illusion? A Review of "Notations on Time" at Ishara Art Foundation
  7. Saif Mhaisen and His Community at Bayt AlMamzar









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BAIT 15 Welcomes New Member Zuhoor Al Sayegh


By Global Art Daily Editorial Board

Published on September 27, 2020

        A fourth member joins the family. BAIT 15, Abu Dhabi’s artist-run studio and exhibition space welcomes Zuhoor Al Sayegh. The new member joins a collective that in almost three years has become a center of gravity for Abu Dhabi’s independent artmaking. Al Sayegh, an interdisciplinary artist, first joined BAIT 15 as an artist-in-residence this past spring. Following her residency, co-founders Hashel Al Lamki, Maitha Abdalla, and Afra Al Dhaheri, today welcome Zuhoor Al Sayegh to their artist home.

Zuhoor Al Sayegh. Headshot courtesy of the artist. 

Afra Al Dhaheri, Maitha Abdalla, and Hashel Al Lamki. Co-founders of BAIT 15. Image courtesy of BAIT 15.

BAIT 15, located in Abu Dhabi’s Al Muroor area, first opened in late 2017. The space houses each member’s studio as well as an exhibition space. The house, while large enough for its members’ paintings, sculptures, and performance experiments, is also condensed enough to foster the sense of community, family and collaboration at its core. Usually open by appointment, BAIT 15 has little by little opened its doors for the public to interact with artworks, makers, and build community. This very place is where Hashel Al Lamki incubated ‘The Cup and The Saucer’ on view at Warehouse 421. BAIT 15 also housed 101’s first art sale recently featuring non-gallery represented artists in the UAE. Simply said, BAIT 15 is the beating heart of Abu Dhabi’s emerging art scene.




Images courtesy of BAIT 15. 

This self-labeled “crossing point between production and exhibition” today celebrates Al Sayegh’s full membership. The twenty-three-year-old artist is growing roots in the community very much in line with her short yet substantial trajectory. An active maker since high school time in Abu Dhabi, Al Sayegh received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago followed by a selective residency at the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, New York. With recent mentorship from world-renowned Yto Barrada, Al Sayegh’s practice embraces textile as a medium to question, reinterpret and critically analyze the constructions of place, memory and gender in the UAE.



Zuhoor Al Sayegh. Beit al mina, 2018. Cotton hand woven cloth, hand dyed warp. Image courtesy of 101, Noor Al Thehli and Zuhoor Al Sayegh.

The artist first reached out to co-founder Hashel Al Lamki about finding a space in Abu Dhabi to continue her practice following her pandemic-instigated return from New York. Al Lamki notes that “BAIT 15 was empty, I had just de-installed a show and I told her to come over. We gave her the residency space, she was there almost everyday. She was a day person, I was a night person. We just overlapped the last half an hour before the curfew.” Al Sayegh confirms and adds: “Initially, the house was very much quiet and I was very much alone. In the very first months of lockdown, Hashel and I would barely overlap. When the curfew became later my schedule shifted. We went from thirty minutes to two hours of overlap. We would sit, talk, and order food. That became what sustained me during my time in quarantine. My only connection with the outside world was Hashel, then Afra and Maitha once they joined.”



“My only connection with the outside world was Hashel, then Afra and Maitha once they joined.”


- Zuhoor Al Sayegh



Zuhoor Al Sayegh’s studio at BAIT 15. Image courtesy of the artist. 

Being an artist-in-residence involved many learning moments for Al Sayegh. In her own words, “As a resident, I found out that I am extremely malleable. I went from having access to a full-fledged textile facility in New York to just having me, my walls in Abu Dhabi, and the few things that I was able to bring. Having to adapt to that was a discovery. I also didn’t know much about the art community of Abu Dhabi. I had a lot to learn about the members of BAIT 15.”



“I found out that I am extremely malleable.”


- Zuhoor Al Sayegh


Al Sayegh is now BAIT 15’s youngest member, bearing the torch of a new generation of makers. BAIT 15 had begun as a reflection of the time in which Al Lamki, Abdalla, and Al Dhaheri materialized the idea. As alumni of the SEAF Fellowship who witnessed the artist communities of the US and the UK, their return to Abu Dhabi instigated them to create a community of their own. Co-founder Afra Al Dhaheri mentions that “We started it, we brought this to life but it’s also for the community. It doesn’t feel like we own BAIT 15 anymore, it’s for the community. It has to exist.” She goes onto add that “When we started we never thought we would be just three. We had started with five members and then scaled down. We came to an understanding that when the right person will come, they’ll come. It was very important for us to have someone who shares the same passion, the same values  not only about work but also about the community, and about BAIT 15.”




Images courtesy of BAIT 15. 



“We brought this to life but it’s also for the community.”


- Afra Al Dhaheri


Al Sayegh’s much anticipated arrival to the team speaks to BAIT 15’s collective now attaining the maturity, support, and presence capable of incubating and further launching young artists’ careers. When asked about her reaction when joining the collective, Al Sayegh shares “I was excited and also honored. This very much felt like an endorsement from my peers. I’ve followed their work for years. I knew about BAIT 15 from its inception. I felt like I came back to Abu Dhabi quite quickly and suddenly, BAIT 15 was the soft landing that I didn't know I needed.”

Image courtesy of BAIT 15. 



“BAIT 15 was the soft landing that I didn't know I needed.”

- Zuhoor Al Sayegh


Al Lamki shares more about Al Sayegh’s impact in the collective prior to joining: “Since March till today she has been a very valuable addition to the BAIT 15 community. Zuhoor really started taking these initiatives without us asking her. She repainted the walls, she cleaned the kitchen, she prepared the library.” He further adds that “We have exciting projects. We are thinking of a comeback show once restrictions are lifted for galleries. We are thinking about building the library. She is in discussion with Afra to acquire some ceramic tools and a loom. There is a lot that we can expand on for this common space.”


Image courtesy of BAIT 15. 

Al Dhaheri further validates Al Sayegh’s timely presence at BAIT 15: “We are a family at BAIT 15. We all have to take care of each other as well as the space. Zuhoor came in and did that naturally. She has brought so much, taking care of the space but also engaging in conversation, being there. Her background is super interesting to us. We have had endless conversations and have lots of overlaps in our practice. One of the things that I was discussing with Hashel and Maitha prior to inviting Zuhoor to join us is that we’ve been looking around into bringing someone who would bring a fresh voice and a different group of the community into BAIT 15. Diversity is very important and Zuhoor brings that. She has a strong voice. From now on we would probably call her the manager of BAIT 15 [laughs], she is a boss lady.”



“Diversity is very important and Zuhoor brings that.”


- Afra Al Dhaheri

About supporting the artist in Abu Dhabi, Al Lamki highlights that “We all felt at some point that her voice has been really helpful.  We’ve been working as founders for three years and we needed someone with fresh eyes who could come and point out things.” He then shares that “Zuhoor and I also enjoyed the NYUAD Art Gallery ‘TRACE’ series. One of them which was important to us was  ‘Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952-1965’. Attending that lecture together made us realize that we can do more with BAIT 15.” 



“We needed someone with fresh eyes who could come and point out things.”



- Hashel Al Lamki


Artworks by Zuhoor Al Sayegh. Image courtesy of the artist.

Al Sayegh’s career holds ongoing milestones. She was part of the first cohort of artists featured in 101’s art sale last month. Through her ‘Zaatar Studies’ and ‘Beit Al Mina’ pieces now acquired by emerging collectors, she employs her craft to reignite the nostalgia of the Abu Dhabi she grew up in.

Just last week, Al Sayegh’s video piece ‘ترقص بلا صروال كيف مصرولة’ [the artist has chosen not to translate the artwork title] was part of the closing show of the Textile Arts Center in New York: ‘Subtle Speaks’, part of the 11th cycle of artists in residence. 



Still’s from Zuhoor Al Sayegh’s video piece. Courtesy of the artist. 

Zuhoor shares that “I found myself looking to BAIT 15 for sustenance. I found myself excited about developing a piece for a show in New York. I was receiving feedback from two sets of peers, the people in New York and at BAIT 15. The work was allowed to grow and got to be very playful.” In parallel to this, four weeks from now, the artist will join more than ten young artists in the UAE for the second edition of the two-week-long Youth Takeover at Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai. Al Sayegh was commissioned by curator and GAD Managing Editor Daniel H. Rey to respond to the intersection of beliefs and science in our contemporary landscape.



“I found myself looking to BAIT 15 for sustenance.” 


- Zuhoor Al Sayegh




‘Don’t Laugh Too Loud You May Fall Through The Clouds’, Zuhoor Al Sayegh. Images courtesy of the artist.

‘Don’t Laugh Too Loud You May Fall Through The Clouds’, Zuhoor Al Sayegh. Images courtesy of the artist. 


About the new chapter as a core member of BAIT 15, excitement intersects with careful planning. The artist is transforming her resident studio into a permanent studio for her textile, ceramics, and video work. New projects with BAIT 15 include cataloguing its vast library, designing upcoming collections and preparings artist shows that will follow soon. For now, we celebrate Al Sayegh’s journey ahead with BAIT 15 and look forward to more stories featuring her work. “I want to become BAIT 15’s extra arm, support what is needed, push, be an extra set of eyes, bring about an extra set of questions. The biggest thing is connection to a new generation of up-and-coming artists. I hope to become this middle ground between Afra, Hashel, and Maitha’s generation of extremely established artists, and the younger generation who are just trying to find their footing. I want to see how at BAIT 15 we can engage those people,” she adds.



“I want to become BAIT 15’s extra arm, support what is needed, push, be an extra set of eyes, bring about an extra set of questions.” 


- Zuhoor Al Sayegh


To close with Al Sayegh’s own words, “By becoming a member I am learning that when like-minded people come together, it just works. Other members would agree that our new relationship doesn't feel forced, it just feels like what was right.”

 

“When like-minded people come together, it just works.”


- Zuhoor Al Sayegh




Zuhoor Al Sayegh is an interdisciplinary artist based in the United Arab Emirates. Al Sayegh graduated with a BFA from the fine arts department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 2019 specialising in textile. Following her graduation Al Sayegh participated in a residency program at The Textile Arts Center in New York, with Yto Barrada as her mentor. Al Sayegh finds herself mostly inspired by movement and stories. She explores these foundations through her work in fibers and ceramics.

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BAIT 15 is an artist run studio and exhibition space located in a residential neighborhood of downtown Abu Dhabi founded in late 2017 by Afra Al Dhaheri, Hashel Al Lamki, and Maitha Abdalla. The villa housing BAIT includes: studios, one for each of the members, a dedicated studio for the use of visiting artists, and an exhibition space. The founders have disparate studio practices encompassing a variety of media including painting, sculpture, digital media, and performance.

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