"Adeel uz Zafar, Kong - The Tragic Anti-hero, 2012. Courtesy of the artist and Lawrie Shabibi"
PULSE Contemporary Art Fair is the leading US art fair dedicated solely to contemporary art. Through its annual editions in New York, Los Angeles and Miami, PULSE provides a unique platform for diverse galleries to present a progressive blend of renowned and pioneering contemporary artists, alongside an evolving series of original programming. The fair's distinctive commitment to the art community and visitor experience makes PULSE unique among art fairs and creates an art market experience that is both dynamic and inviting.
Lawrie Shabibi is pleased to announce its participation in PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, which takes places at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, New York from 3 May to 6 May, 2012. This will be Lawrie Shabibi’s first participation in an international art fair since it was established in 2011 and will be the only gallery from the Middle East to be showing at the fair. The gallery will present a selection of works by gallery artists Sama Alshaibi, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Shahpour Pouyan, Driss Ouadahi, and for the first time Adeel uz Zafar.
Sama Alshaibi was born in 1973 in Basra, Iraq and currently lives in Tuscon, Arizona where she is an assistant professor at the University of Arizona. A Palestinian-Iraqi exiled to the United States, Alshaibi is a video and photography artist, her practice rooted in the anxieties of the human experience. At Pulse Lawrie Shabibi will display a video box entitled vs. The Son taken from her recent series Vs. Him that explores male stereotypes and investigates Middle Eastern masculinities in relationship to, and in contrast with, a female protagonist.
Nadia Kaabi-Linke was born in 1978 in Tunis, Tunisia and currently resides between Berlin and Tunis. Kaabi-Linke works in a variety of media her work relating to places and their histories and anchored in constellations of cultural and historical, social and political contexts. Lawrie Shabibi will present an installation that consists of a painting and object entitled Those goddamn boys all stealing. The work depicts a wall rubbing from a basement on the site of an historic bar in Berlin frequented by homosexuals in the time of the Weimar Republic, alongside a copy of Christopher Isherwood’s memoir Christopher and His Kind, open at the page that refers to this bar.
Shahpour Pouyan was born in 1979 in Isfahan, Iran and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York where he is studying for an MFA at Pratt. Pouyan's work is a commentary about power, domination and possession through the force of culture. He often uses Persian historical motifs as shorthand for this “culture”. At PULSE Lawrie Shabibi will display a selection of Pouyan’s recent drawings as well two new larger scale paintings of Hooves.
Driss Ouadahi was born in 1959 and currently lives in Dusseldorf, Germany and is of Algerian descent. Ouadahi takes as his subject matter the built environment of urban alienation - sterile modernist public housing developments, wire netting and underground passageways, painting works of paradoxical beauty using this stark urbanism as his springboard. Lawrie Shabibi will present a selection of his latest large-scale works on canvas.
Adeel uz Zafar was born in Karachi, Pakistan, in 1975, where he currently lives and works. uz Zafar employs a unique technique to produce large scale engravings on vinyl of bandaged soft toys, which combine a minaturist’s eye for detail with comic-strip boldness. He uses images that he associates with the pain of his childhood memories- the innocence of childhood and a primeval need for security during adolescence. uz Zafar’s toys are bandaged, and appear somewhat sinister, while at the same time being broken or wounded and in need of repair. Two new works by Adeel uz Zafar will be presented at the booth- KONG- The Tragic Antihero and DEAR.
PULSE New York takes place at the Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street Chelsea, New York from 3 to 6 May, 2012.
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