Curators: Hesperia Iliadou, Chase Westfall
Exhibitors: Fatima Abbas, Shima Aeinehdar, Latifa Al Ali, Alaa Albarazy, Maha Al Marri, Sara Al Naimi, Hind Al Saad, Rola Al-Soubaihi, Zainab Al-Shibani, Al-Anood Al-Thani, Maysaa Almumin, Nathan Davis, Louis-Phillippe Demers, Sarah Elawad, Sherifa Eletrebi, Haithem El- Hammali, Selma Fejzullaj, Johan Granberg, Basma Hamdy, Levi Hammett, Michael Hersrud, Neelima Jeychandran, Astrid Kensinger, Eman Makki, Rab McClure, Monica Merlin, Simone Muscolino, Erzum Naqvi, Guillaume Rouseré, Mohammad Sulieman, Byradley Yyelland
Venue: Palazzo Cavanis, Dorsoduro 920, Fondamenta Zattere ai Gesuati
www.qatar.vcu.edu/our-impact/biennale-arte-2026
إدراك أغرب | Aghrab Idrāk: Thresholds of Perception
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إدراك أغرب | Aghrab Idrāk: Thresholds of Perceptionapproaches perception as a relational, situated mode of knowing. Unfolding through a sequence of spatial thresholds, the exhibition attends to subtle registers of experience – those shaped by proximity, ambiguity and movement. The exhibition brings together works from ten research labs within the Institute for Creative Research at VCUarts Qatar. Rather than advancing a singular narrative, it unfolds as a rhizomatic landscape of encounters, reflecting a plurality of voices and the Gulf region’s long histories of circulation across space and time. Light, shadow, sound, movement and material operate as modes of sensing, inviting visitors to encounter knowledge as something felt, negotiated and emergent.
Within this context, lab-based research operates as a collective and situated practice. Inquiry evolves through experimentation, dialogue and shared authorship – attentive to material, cultural and social conditions.
Extending this ethos, the accompanying symposium, Relational Ecologies: Perception, Mobility, and Collective Form, deepens the exhibition’s concerns through sessions focused on perceptual, translocal and collaborative ecologies.