Tracing Temple Ties

As temples in the UAE continuously evolve, we invite you to bring a photograph you have in one of these spaces—such as Shiva Temple, Shri Krishna Temple, or others. Together, we will engage in a collective reading of these images, working collaboratively to develop a lexicon that explores the subtleties of emerging changes.

The session will begin in conversation with Sreerag Jyotish and in collaboration with Shama Nair, both of whose work critically engages with these shifting landscapes.

Date: 24 November, 2024
Time: 2PM - 3PM
Location: WH45, Jossa by Alserkal

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Biographies

Lubnah Ansari is an artist, researcher, and community facilitator. Engaging in feminist ethnography and the politics of image-making, she explores silences, intimacies and agencies in India and the Gulf. She is currently pursuing an M.A. at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts.

Sree is a third-generation South-Asian, Malayalee immigrant from the UAE. As an artist, his work engages with archives, oral histories, and urban ecologies in and of the region, reinspecting traditional notions of indigeneity, gaze, and settler-colonialism. As a curator and arts educator, he experiments with curation, public programming, and pedagogy as modes of convivial convening in the hopes of honing further criticality to how art-making and identity are practiced, here.

Shama Nair is a photographer, writer, and curator based in the UAE. Drawn to the intersection of urban spaces and visual culture, she strives to explore our spatial, temporal and aesthetic relationships with an ever-expanding neoliberal metropolis. She presently works with the Alserkal Arts Foundation.