crystal glass, acetate and brass trophy, silk-screened text plexi-glass vitrine with wood pedestal and marble veneerProject Native Informant
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.
This abstract sculpture features a towering, geometric structure composed of prominent, intersecting metallic beams in shades of gold. The angular, lattice-like design creates a sense of industrial energy and dynamism, with the framework appearing to support or suspend a central, crystalline element. The visually striking composition, featuring bold lines, shapes, and reflective surfaces, suggests a marriage of industrial engineering and modernist aesthetic. The artist likely intended to explore themes of technological progress, architectural innovation, and the intersection of form and function in this captivating contemporary artwork. ...
As opaque in their referents as they are blatant, GCC exploits the rhetoric around false utopias of transnational bureaucratic bodies, exploring the constructions of such identities through clever articulations of their own. When they appropriate the gestures and self-mythologizing imagery involved in diplomatic proceedings, they seek to uncover them as rituals with no real meaning. GCC stands for many things, but primarily an acronym synonymous with a political and economic union, the Gulf Cooperation Council.
For their debut exhibition at Project Native Informant, GCC presented photographic outtakes from their first annual summit in Morschach, Switzerland. A sinfully beautiful confluence of lakes and mountains is the backdrop for the handshakes, iPad deliberations and tea services that serve as glimpses of the collective’s diplomacy at work. This performance for camera lampoons the convening of the Council, held in a similarly luxurious setting and with similar jockeying between leisure and statesmanship.
Founded in 2013, current members include Abdullah Al-Mutairi, Amal Khalaf, Aziz Al Qatami, Barrak Alzaid, Fatima Al Qadiri, Khalid al Gharaballi and Nanu Al-Hamad.
The basic objectives of the GCC are effective collaboration, transformation and interconnection between artists in all fields in order to achieve unity between them:
Being fully aware of the ties of special relations, common characteristics and similar systems founded on the creed of Art which bind them; and
In conformity with the Charter of the Federation of Gulf Artists which calls for the realization of closer relations and stronger bonds; and
Having the conviction that coordination, cooperation, and integration between them serve the sublime objectives of the GCC; and,
In order to channel their efforts to reinforce and serve Gulf and Artistic causes. ...
Contemporary art gallery established in 2013 with a strong interest in expanded institutional critique. Project Native Informant works with 16 artists and collectives, producing 5-6 exhibitions per year and hosting performances, concerts, talks and events.
