Seher Shah’s first solo show in Dubai, The Lightness of Mass, 2016, was accompanied by this fully-illustrated catalogue with essays by Shanay Jhaveri, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Assistant Curator of South Asian Art and Murtaza Vali, an independent Writer and Curator based between Brooklyn and Sharjah.
Across six series of works in The Lightness of Mass, Shah deftly collapses the binary of the show’s title, illustrating that weight and lightness, far from being contradictory, exist, in fact, simultaneously; they comprise a single state of being.
About the Artist
Seher Shah’s practice uses experiences from the field of art and architecture to think about space, landscape, objects and aesthetics through drawing, printmaking and sculpture. Her work draws through scale shifts between the individual to architecture, personal memory to collective historical events and the transformation of symbols and spaces.
Along with Randhir Singh, Seher Shah’s Artist’s Room at Jameel Arts Centre featured two major works: a three-part graphite drawing, Emergent structures: relative noise, planar landscape and capital mass, and Studies in form. The work was exhibited from Mach 7 to June 8, 2019.
About the Publisher
Throughout its storied history as a gallery active in the Middle East for nearly four decades, Green Art Gallery has had the privilege of bearing witness to the tremendous transformations that the regional art scene has witnessed.
Now in its second generation and newest form, Green Art Gallery relaunched in 2010 as a contemporary art space. Its programme features artists working across diverse media, whose practices are rigorously researched, idea-led and representative of the present moment. The gallery represents a multi-generational mix of artists from the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and beyond, reflecting Dubai’s position as a cosmopolitan—as well as artistic—entrepôt.
