Current Exhibition / Group show
Ancient Future
21 November 2020
Gallery 1: Ancient Future
The Third Line is pleased to present Ancient Future, a group exhibition exploring notions of time. The strange events of this year have had a far- and wide-reaching impact on all lives on various levels and ensued the uneasy realization that being more connected with the rest of the world has also come to mean we are more interdependent on it. This exhibition delves into the concept of "unprecedented times" -a buzzword frequently thrown around in emails and news reports throughout this pandemic- by exploring the dichotomy between ancient and future.
The works in this exhibition illustrate the intimate perspective of each artist’s personal experience to investigate more universal ideas of documentation, globalization, and the cyclical nature of history, as well as issues concerning humankind’s interventions in its environment. These works traverse between fact and fiction, illustrating a desire to diminish the distance between the viewer and the environment. They also mark the construction, destruction, and reconstruction of each civilization and envision the future based on these semi-familiar foundations.
Exploring a narrative of recontextualized timelines and topographies, this group exhibition features artworks by Ala Ebtekar, Amir H. Fallah, Farah Al Qasimi, Fouad Elkoury, Hayv Kahraman, Huda Lutfi, Laleh Khorramian, Lamya Gargash, Sara Naim, Sophia Al-Maria, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Youssef Nabil, and Zineb Sedira.