Mohammed Kazem and Latif Al Ani are taking part in a group exhibition “The Circle was a Point” presented by the Barjeel Art Foundation at the Foundry, from February 16 to March 23, 2024. “The Circle was a Point”, curated by Sama Alshaibi and Amir Hazim, is a mediation of the Barjeel Art Foundation’s photography collection articulating artists’ expression beyond political, geographical, and cultural boundaries in the spirit of photography’s defiance of uniformity.
The works showcase photography’s diversity, including its use as three-dimensional and time-based media, its collaboration with sunlight and neon, and its testimony in archives. The exhibition questions photography’s intimate relationship to space and time, demonstrating the medium’s powerful ability to introduce, manipulate, or remove the presence of these dimensions. Demonstrating how artists can interrupt our expectations of stillness and continuity, the images transform the inanimate into the performative, and the body into the architectural. "The Circle Was a Point" invites its viewers to engage in Photography in the spirit of the title: a central origin permeating the whole. Through showcase, the works of these thirty artists tell a new story, one radial and ever-evolving.
"The Circle Was a Point"
February 16 - March 23, 2024
The Foundry, Downtown Dubai
