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Time That Grows Slowly
Year: 2026
Curated by Alexander Burenkov
Time That Grows Slowly takes up vegetal temporalities as alternative ways of inhabiting the world. Inspired by Michael Marder’s philosophy of plant life as well as Sufi conceptions of time as growth rather than linear movement, the group exhibition brings together cross-regional artists, many presented in Dubai for the first time.
The works unfold around the idea of vegetal attunement — a sensitive orientation toward plant life and its cyclical, non-urgent rhythms—to propose a shift from acceleration toward forms of time shaped by growth, latency, repetition, and regeneration. To attune to plants is to welcome the governance of seasonal cycles, slow transformations, and imperceptible exchanges of matter and energy. Vegetal time thus becomes not a metaphor but an experiential framework that challenges dominant ideas of productivity, progress, and human centrality.
Sulafa’s artwork explores in-between moments in our contemporary life. We receive temporary numbers that quickly disappear once their task is finished, such as one-time passwords or delivery order numbers. Using crochet, she translated those digits by slowing it down through a repeated and slow process of making, pulling them out of speed and placing them within another kind of duration shaped by patience. Encased in resin, the work preserves traces of these temporary systems, existing between permanence and disappearance.
The exibhtion included artists: Maha Alasaker (Kuwait / UAE), Srijon Chowdhury (Bangladesh / USA), Odonchimeg Davaadorj (Mongolia / France), Patricia Domínguez (Chile), Kwama Frigaux (Ghana / France), Mevlana Lipp (Germany), Sulafa Mohammed (UAE), Tabita Rezaire (France), Shaima Shamsi (Saudi Arabia / Bahrain / UAE), Farah Soltani (Iran / UAE), Antoine Renard (France), Nadia Waheed (Saudi Arabia / Pakistan / USA)
Year: 2026
Curated by Alexander Burenkov
Time That Grows Slowly takes up vegetal temporalities as alternative ways of inhabiting the world. Inspired by Michael Marder’s philosophy of plant life as well as Sufi conceptions of time as growth rather than linear movement, the group exhibition brings together cross-regional artists, many presented in Dubai for the first time.
The works unfold around the idea of vegetal attunement — a sensitive orientation toward plant life and its cyclical, non-urgent rhythms—to propose a shift from acceleration toward forms of time shaped by growth, latency, repetition, and regeneration. To attune to plants is to welcome the governance of seasonal cycles, slow transformations, and imperceptible exchanges of matter and energy. Vegetal time thus becomes not a metaphor but an experiential framework that challenges dominant ideas of productivity, progress, and human centrality.
Sulafa’s artwork explores in-between moments in our contemporary life. We receive temporary numbers that quickly disappear once their task is finished, such as one-time passwords or delivery order numbers. Using crochet, she translated those digits by slowing it down through a repeated and slow process of making, pulling them out of speed and placing them within another kind of duration shaped by patience. Encased in resin, the work preserves traces of these temporary systems, existing between permanence and disappearance.
The exibhtion included artists: Maha Alasaker (Kuwait / UAE), Srijon Chowdhury (Bangladesh / USA), Odonchimeg Davaadorj (Mongolia / France), Patricia Domínguez (Chile), Kwama Frigaux (Ghana / France), Mevlana Lipp (Germany), Sulafa Mohammed (UAE), Tabita Rezaire (France), Shaima Shamsi (Saudi Arabia / Bahrain / UAE), Farah Soltani (Iran / UAE), Antoine Renard (France), Nadia Waheed (Saudi Arabia / Pakistan / USA)
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