Foundry Downtown Dubai invites everyone to attend Unbound Territories, a collective exhibition that challenges traditional boundaries and redefines women’s place in contemporary art, celebrating their creative power across generations. Organised by A+ Art Consultancy and Gillian Jason Gallery, it showcases works by eight artists whose practices challenge, expand, and reimagine the landscapes of contemporary art. The exhibition will be open to the public until 30 April 2025.
The show weaves past, present, and future through painting, sculpture, printmaking, and photography, highlighting each artist’s exploration of materiality and form. Each of them carves out their distinctive “territory,” offering reflections on identity, perception, memory, materiality, and the body.
Unbound Territories spotlights the profound influence of historical icons alongside emerging contemporary voices. Visitors can admire works by English painter Bridget Riley, famous for her pioneering optical illusions, and French-American artist Louise Bourgeois, one of the great figures of modern and contemporary art who is best known for her psychologically charged large-scale sculptures and installations. Also exhibited are works by Argentine-British photographer and surrealist artist Eileen Agar, whose innovative approach blended painting, collage, and found objects.
British artist Megan Baker and British-Iraqi artist Pippa El-Kadhi Brown bring fresh approaches to abstraction and figuration. Baker draws inspiration from Old Master paintings to create lyrical abstract landscapes, in which she explores moments of stillness. In her dreamlike compositions, El-Kadhi Brown examines the relationship between domestic spaces, consciousness, and the human psyche.
British artist Georgia Dymock portrays voluminous human figures, rendered in bold colours, that question identity and the female form. These characters, which are translated from the digital realm onto the canvas, question identity in the digital age. Meanwhile, Spanish photographer and artist Violeta Sofia merges her African heritage with Old Master influences to examine race and diasporic identity.
The exhibition also displays art pieces by British-Jamaican artist and designer Sadie Clayton who employs copper to create sculptures, seeking to bring positivity and promote healing. Passionate about technology and innovation, she also works with holograms, AR, and AI.
To get more information about Unbound Territories, please go to the official web page of the exhibition.
In addition, you might be interested in viewing Fahrelnissa and the Institutes: Towards a Sky, one of the online exhibitions at the Cultural Foundation.
