Highlights from ‘Speculative Landscapes,’ running at Abu Dhabi's NYU Art Gallery

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Here are some highlights from ‘Speculative Landscapes,’ which runs until Dec. 7 at Abu Dhabi"s New York University Art Gallery. ‘A comma’ Jumairy This exhibition brings together new installations from four UAE-based artists. According to the gallery, “Each raises a question: how do organisms — whether human or other — create, survive, and inhabit our natural, artificial, and virtual worlds?” Jumairy and Ayman Zedani “propose worlds in which our natural bodies and the landscape around us manifest biological or artificial intelligence.” ‘Unknown Safety’ Areej Kaoud Kaoud’s installation is a playground of sorts, which — the gallery suggests — “keeps visitors on high alert to ever-present risk. Kaoud is a Palestinian conceptual artist whose work “draws on her interest in narratives and disastrous scenarios. Emergency provisions are a common subject, and she “invites the viewer to question the relationship between our bodies and politics.” ‘A quiet wave’ Raja’a Khalid Khalid is of South Asian descent, but was born in Jeddah and is now based in Dubai. Her performative installation “invites viewers to embrace personal well-being as a commodifiable trend.” Curator Maya Allison says that all the featured artists “capture something unique in their perspectives … in how they respond to their surroundings.”

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