"Off Centered Break" by Sarah Almehairi features a rich brown rectangular form, offset against a wooden geometric frame. The composition employs sharp, linear elements with contrasting orange and white lines adding tension and direction. The artwork embodies minimalism and abstraction, using structured shapes to evoke architectural and linguistic references. Almehairi explores themes of materiality and fragmentation, encouraging viewers to interpret the piece as a fragmented narrative or map, embodying her interest in complexity and clarity. ...
Sarah Almehairi’s overarching body of work unfolds a discourse on themes of materiality, systems & interrelations, and language through the intuitive and poetic examination of narrative and abstraction. By
engaging with geometric forms, she extracts and defines a structural language read time and time again to suggest a form other than its own – a map, a sentence, a puzzle piece. Through the process, they are broken down, built, and reassembled as continuous iterations of themselves. These elements towards telling a story are not so explicit, lines and layers are used throughout her pieces as a means of exploring clarity and organization of collected information. Working primarily with investigative range of media, she explores the push and pull of material to evoke a story that both conceals and reveals itself. ...
CARBON 12 was established in 2008, initiating a comprehensive, firmly global, program of institution-grade artists. Internationally active, Carbon 12 continuously introduces and promotes both established and emerging artists to the
UAE contemporary art scene, supplementing its 6-8 annual exhibitions with diverse contextual activities including
publications and talks that actively engage the public and educational institutions. The playful, organic process that
constitutes the creative production of Carbon 12’s artist base is facilitated and mirrored by its location in Al Quoz. ...
