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This vibrant contemporary artwork features a bold, fiery explosion against a striking green backdrop, creating a visually striking and dynamic composition. The prominent neon "OPTICS" text overlaying the scene suggests a focus on the optical properties and illusory nature of the explosion. The artist's use of vivid colors, dramatic lighting, and unconventional subject matter evokes a sense of energy, disruption, and the exploration of visual perception. This piece likely comments on the power and deception inherent in optical phenomena, inviting the viewer to consider the interplay between visual reality and artistic interpretation. ...
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Sophia Al Maria
B.1983, Qatari/AmericanSophia Al-Maria is a Qatari-American artist, writer, and filmmaker living and working in London. Though her work spans many disciplines including drawing, film and screen-writing for TV, it is united by a preoccupation with the power of storytelling and myth, and in particular with imagining revisionist histories and alternative futures. With her friend and collaborator Fatima Al Qadiri, Al-Maria coined the term “Gulf Futurism” to describe the growing atomisation of individuals and the shifting ground of urban planning, aesthetics, and media, and their impact on everyday life in the post-oil Persian Gulf. Her cinematic artist’s videos are fuelled by the combination of critical rigour with an affective charge in their explorations of language, imperialism, and counter-histories – a deep investigation and dramatisation of the sociopolitical, economic, and environmental present. ...
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Project Native Informant
LondonContemporary 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.