An exhibition created by Alserkal Initiatives in partnership with Cité Internationale des arts and in collaboration with Lightbox. The exhibition will take place from 16 to 21 April 2024 at My Art Guides Venice Meeting Point, Navy Officers’ Club, Arsenale, Venice.

Curated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Arts and Culture Programme Manager at Cité international des arts, the exhibition spans installations, photographs, performances, listening sessions, and heart-to-heart conversations.

The exhibition offers a counter-space to the reigning agendas of war, patriarchy, and colonialism, and their toxic impacts on human and non-human ecosystems. The exhibiting artists—alumni, residents, and collaborators of both Cité international des arts in Paris and Alserkal Initiatives in Dubai—challenge the understanding of ‘solidarity’ as merely an object of theorising and discourse.