https://sarahdaher.xyz Sarah Daher Tue, 24 May 2022 08:08:37 +0000 https://sarahdaher.xyz en https://sarahdaher.xyz/Main-Slideshow Fri, 30 Jul 2021 16:07:27 +0000 Sarah Daher https://sarahdaher.xyz/Main-Slideshow <img width="938" height="1412" width_o="938" height_o="1412" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a017402be34d4929e96d7658eb74b58769ee8348df6941ef2f3207a4bb2dfb0/Sarah-Daher-Photo.png" data-mid="250941544" border="0" data-scale="47" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/938/i/7a017402be34d4929e96d7658eb74b58769ee8348df6941ef2f3207a4bb2dfb0/Sarah-Daher-Photo.png" /> https://sarahdaher.xyz/About Thu, 02 Sep 2021 10:32:19 +0000 Sarah Daher https://sarahdaher.xyz/About About &nbsp; Sarah Daher is a Lebanese curator, researcher, and writer. She holds a Masters degree in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art in London and a BA in Theater and Economics from New York University Abu Dhabi. Sarah is currently based in the UAE where she works as a curator and writer. Her most recent shows include After the Beep held at Satellite on Alserkal Avenue in Dubai and Fulfilment Services Ltd in collaboration with Gasworks London. She is the founder and co-host of ‘Khosh Bosh with Anita and Sarah’, a conversational podcast platforming the work of UAE-based creatives. Sarah worked as a researcher for Temporary Art Platform, a curatorial platform focused on the development of social practice in Lebanon, the region, and the Global South. Contact Sarah by emailing sarahcharlesdaher@gmail.com Press about Sarah Young Voices in Dubai, by Vamika Sinha Canvas Magazine Issue 99, September 2021 https://sarahdaher.xyz/DMCA Tue, 24 May 2022 08:08:37 +0000 Sarah Daher https://sarahdaher.xyz/DMCA Dirwaza Microfund for Creative Access &nbsp; As an active part of the Dirwaza Incubator, the Microfund for Creative Access is a resource for UAE-based creative practitioners, granting financial and mentorship support to one proposal per month in May, June, and July as well as September, October and November of 2022. The Microfund encourages experimentation in multiple forms. &nbsp;Creatives of all disciplines are encouraged to apply with proposals for unrealized new projects as well as already in-progress projects. Accepted applicants will be granted up to 1,000 AED to be directed towards the execution of their proposal and will be asked to generate a personal archive (fluid in form) of their creative process during their time being supported by the Microfund. All projects are to submit a final reflection, at the latest, 90 days after acceptance. For more information, or to apply - visit dirwazalab.com/incubator <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/562e63fd8fe3e0de3dc633405cb06ab5dd12becfc46c6bf883341e636f2a5e91/3B245BF6-5F93-478E-8178-CBB5A64188CA.JPG" data-mid="143472717" border="0" data-scale="79" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/562e63fd8fe3e0de3dc633405cb06ab5dd12becfc46c6bf883341e636f2a5e91/3B245BF6-5F93-478E-8178-CBB5A64188CA.JPG" /> https://sarahdaher.xyz/After-the-Beep Fri, 30 Jul 2021 16:07:28 +0000 Sarah Daher https://sarahdaher.xyz/After-the-Beep Recent Exhibitions &nbsp; Telephone ︎︎︎ After the Beep May - August 2021The question now is whether conceptual links between artists can be formed on spur-of-the-moment, surface contact, and whether the element of anonymity, with creators unknown to each other, as well as time, can enrich or devalue the final work.Alex Chaves, The National Exhibition Publication Press The National Arab News Alserkal.online Gulf Today Savoir Flair Time Out Global Art Daily Telephone began as an artist exercise conceived with the goal of encouraging experimental artistic production as an alternative method in the UAE’s otherwise heavily structured and regulated art ecosystem. The two-month long exercise brought together 38 artists of various practices, inviting them to create new work under time pressure in an attempt to challenge the notion of a perfectly produced artwork.&nbsp; Following in the spirit of the common childhood game, ‘Broken Telephone’, artists were invited to produce work in response to one another in a linear chain. Each artist had the opportunity to see the work produced before them in the chain and then prepare their response piece based off of what they had seen. Artists were limited by the 48-hour production period from the moment they saw the work preceding theirs to the moment they submitted their own new work.&nbsp; After the Beep, held at Satellite on Alserkal Avenue, was the exercise’s culminating exhibition in which all new works produced by participating artists were revealed to the public. Arranged in a manner that illustrated the order in which the works were produced, it was the first opportunity for participating artists to experience how the art pieces had evolved along the 38-person chain, similar to how a whisper evolves in a round of ‘Broken Telephone’. After the Beep was co-curated by Sarah Daher and Anna Bernice. With support from Rami Farook. &nbsp; https://sarahdaher.xyz/After-the-Beep-Images Fri, 30 Jul 2021 16:07:28 +0000 Sarah Daher https://sarahdaher.xyz/After-the-Beep-Images <img width="3508" height="4961" width_o="3508" height_o="4961" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e27e7830ecb8fe61fc451b362879c675f704476c9f5c6bf80ec995a97fd6d096/A3_2.jpg" data-mid="117901893" border="0" alt="Exhibition poster" data-caption="Exhibition poster" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e27e7830ecb8fe61fc451b362879c675f704476c9f5c6bf80ec995a97fd6d096/A3_2.jpg" /> <img width="3456" height="5184" width_o="3456" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cba12caba1e129fed528117bd5916a146796838a10fcf546a9f19506ea1e5464/IMG_5758.JPG" data-mid="117902068" border="0" alt="Curators Anna Bernice and Sarah Daher" data-caption="Curators Anna Bernice and Sarah Daher" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cba12caba1e129fed528117bd5916a146796838a10fcf546a9f19506ea1e5464/IMG_5758.JPG" /> <img width="3456" height="5184" width_o="3456" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c75934673bd2d0da8b0b2479ed755ea8a4f74f8f9bc17b5f662ee564eec5f652/IMG_5716.JPG" data-mid="117902070" border="0" alt="Install view and guest book" data-caption="Install view and guest book" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c75934673bd2d0da8b0b2479ed755ea8a4f74f8f9bc17b5f662ee564eec5f652/IMG_5716.JPG" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/721147e9ceb0ae3407f41830c2b968a097eb38631f77a49f39c677f5988fde68/IMG_5719.JPG" data-mid="117902112" border="0" alt="Install view" data-caption="Install view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/721147e9ceb0ae3407f41830c2b968a097eb38631f77a49f39c677f5988fde68/IMG_5719.JPG" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d760d25f929bf05f1e331345defdbdd2bd603da49cd85205c4895b02b8a9f399/IMG_5710.JPG" data-mid="117902110" border="0" alt="Install view" data-caption="Install view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d760d25f929bf05f1e331345defdbdd2bd603da49cd85205c4895b02b8a9f399/IMG_5710.JPG" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b66bb36e2497418ab7e17e66fa27b11028a3a028a1b5655f742b7d1eddf804ff/IMG_5738-1.JPG" data-mid="117902078" border="0" alt="Install view" data-caption="Install view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b66bb36e2497418ab7e17e66fa27b11028a3a028a1b5655f742b7d1eddf804ff/IMG_5738-1.JPG" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3aed21a7a7abae687b0f3ba91103bab15a5797c24f2ef6b96dbba486ed29e0bf/IMG_5752-1.JPG" data-mid="117902077" border="0" alt="Install view" data-caption="Install view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3aed21a7a7abae687b0f3ba91103bab15a5797c24f2ef6b96dbba486ed29e0bf/IMG_5752-1.JPG" /> After the Beep, images courtesy of Maria Daher&nbsp; https://sarahdaher.xyz/Fulfilment-Services-Ltd Thu, 02 Sep 2021 08:16:04 +0000 Sarah Daher https://sarahdaher.xyz/Fulfilment-Services-Ltd &nbsp; Fulfilment Services Ltd. May 2021 In partnership with the RCA and Gasworks LondonThe logic of fulfilment creates imagined or predicted future scenarios by satisfying and exceeding the needs of users. In doing so users are integrated into the production chain. The world under fulfilment control is a dystopian scene; in it, the chain of production is no longer unidirectional. This throws traditional pathways into such disarray that it leads us to ask ourselves paramount questions: is there an end to this fulfilment complex?&nbsp; Is capitalism fulfilling consumers or are consumers fulfilling capitalism?Fulfilment Services Ltd. Virtual TourE-Commerce Website Instagram Fulfilment Playlist Writing Commission PressGasworks London Royal College of ArtArt Rabbit Global Art Daily Fulfilment Services Ltd. explored the implications of techno-capitalism on the widespread supply and demand networks that fulfil consumer needs and desires. Newly commissioned artworks by international artists Arvid&amp;Marie, DNA, Florence Jung, and Frank Wang Yefeng unfolded across physical and digital spaces of distribution including billboards, delivery vehicles, and a digital platform. Under existing infrastructures of production and consumption, networks are constantly in multi-directional movement building new needs once existing ones have been satisfied. In an ever-expanding and dissatisfying system we asked crucially: is capitalism fulfilling consumers or are consumers fulfilling capitalism? The four new artist commissions situated themselves in and around London on billboards, delivery vehicles and digitally on an e-commerce platform and website. These works came together under the unified spirit of corroding existing networks of dissemination. At Fulfilment Services Ltd. the disseminated medium was very much part of our message: imagining alternative realities of fulfilment by interrogating the chain of production, networks of transportation, and the extortionist quality of fabricated needs. Fulfilment Services Ltd. was curated by Andreanne Beguin, Zidong Chen, Sarah Daher, Zifei Ge, Hayley Gibson, Jiawei Gu and Brenna Horrox from the MA Curating Contemporary Art Programme as part of the Graduate Projects 2021, Royal College of Art in partnership with Gasworks, supported by Jack Arts and Print&amp;Digital. https://sarahdaher.xyz/Fulfilment-Services-Ltd-Images Thu, 02 Sep 2021 08:16:09 +0000 Sarah Daher https://sarahdaher.xyz/Fulfilment-Services-Ltd-Images <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/999d3a779d71c18cf513389b87a8c16ce7fdfbb8f0fe6b4b5929819a5a4ca89a/JA-RCA06-05-21-43.JPG" data-mid="117910073" border="0" alt="Install view, billboard commission by D.N.A" data-caption="Install view, billboard commission by D.N.A" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/999d3a779d71c18cf513389b87a8c16ce7fdfbb8f0fe6b4b5929819a5a4ca89a/JA-RCA06-05-21-43.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0daaa8ecc00711fb1a094e0097f613f6570ff10f3629b352e08cde796962ce5b/JA-RCA06-05-21-6.JPG" data-mid="117910051" border="0" alt="Install view, billboard commission by Arvid&amp;Marie" data-caption="Install view, billboard commission by Arvid&amp;Marie" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0daaa8ecc00711fb1a094e0097f613f6570ff10f3629b352e08cde796962ce5b/JA-RCA06-05-21-6.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe1d194c439be223c3048993f2da833a1f44580ac5c5bf289e9331eb56ab7814/JA-RCA-07-05-21-28.JPG" data-mid="117909871" border="0" alt="Install view, billboard commission by Florence Jung" data-caption="Install view, billboard commission by Florence Jung" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe1d194c439be223c3048993f2da833a1f44580ac5c5bf289e9331eb56ab7814/JA-RCA-07-05-21-28.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5215bc23ef2b0c0787ed6dcfad51a81d19590807d9e2a36563931e116b2b1850/JA-RCA-07-05-21-8.jpg" data-mid="117910765" border="0" alt="Install view, billboard commission by D.N.A" data-caption="Install view, billboard commission by D.N.A" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5215bc23ef2b0c0787ed6dcfad51a81d19590807d9e2a36563931e116b2b1850/JA-RCA-07-05-21-8.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/99bbaabb1949d549147123a2abc339c00d42de667de03d88826f394b49ccc14d/JA-RCA06-05-21-18.JPG" data-mid="117910064" border="0" alt="Install view, billboard commission by Arvid&amp;Marie" data-caption="Install view, billboard commission by Arvid&amp;Marie" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/99bbaabb1949d549147123a2abc339c00d42de667de03d88826f394b49ccc14d/JA-RCA06-05-21-18.JPG" /> <img width="1125" height="633" width_o="1125" height_o="633" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3dfea43ec684d76a6c77e2c61855d48eed0409126164bd4791800aa892c92186/SLIDE-5.jpeg" data-mid="117910401" border="0" alt="Map view of 12 billboard sites" data-caption="Map view of 12 billboard sites" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3dfea43ec684d76a6c77e2c61855d48eed0409126164bd4791800aa892c92186/SLIDE-5.jpeg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca6b9d2fbfeda60d5b43b607b17dc25fbf54520e332940076b93ce7873ebb9d3/JA-RCA06-05-21-97.jpg" data-mid="117910725" border="0" alt="Install view, billboard commission by Arvid&amp;Marie" data-caption="Install view, billboard commission by Arvid&amp;Marie" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca6b9d2fbfeda60d5b43b607b17dc25fbf54520e332940076b93ce7873ebb9d3/JA-RCA06-05-21-97.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/25bce0e56ba4e4c41a11834dc5273138acd7861368b48196cf14ec662db37b25/JA-RCA06-05-21-55.JPG" data-mid="117910074" border="0" alt="Install view, billboard commission by Frank Wang Yefeng" data-caption="Install view, billboard commission by Frank Wang Yefeng" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/25bce0e56ba4e4c41a11834dc5273138acd7861368b48196cf14ec662db37b25/JA-RCA06-05-21-55.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df393b4110696df8bda9b4485bd755c7b87929cb704cbe7fe97f6764b39e7f5a/IMG_6016.jpg" data-mid="117911147" border="0" alt="Install view, billboard commission by Frank Wang Yefeng" data-caption="Install view, billboard commission by Frank Wang Yefeng" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/df393b4110696df8bda9b4485bd755c7b87929cb704cbe7fe97f6764b39e7f5a/IMG_6016.jpg" /> <img width="5701" height="3801" width_o="5701" height_o="3801" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/71060c2214e3b7a4e25bcab9e130fb7872ddf015ef081f57d384403d170d5dd4/JA-RCA-07-05-21-27-1.jpg" data-mid="117910981" border="0" alt="Install view, billboard commission by Frank Wang Yefeng" data-caption="Install view, billboard commission by Frank Wang Yefeng" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/71060c2214e3b7a4e25bcab9e130fb7872ddf015ef081f57d384403d170d5dd4/JA-RCA-07-05-21-27-1.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4507767788048dd26ff2c5b2b6c3ab1aaab89b61ddedbc2469e7b9c4ccf4e245/JA-RCA06-05-21-68-1.jpg" data-mid="117910958" border="0" alt="Install view, billboard commission by D.N.A" data-caption="Install view, billboard commission by D.N.A" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4507767788048dd26ff2c5b2b6c3ab1aaab89b61ddedbc2469e7b9c4ccf4e245/JA-RCA06-05-21-68-1.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/79225fcf0f3032fbff2fd175feae59157e2dce713aab0133ff0675f91e469ee0/JA-RCA06-05-21-88-1-2.JPG" data-mid="117910079" border="0" alt="Install view, billboard commission by Florence Jung" data-caption="Install view, billboard commission by Florence Jung" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/79225fcf0f3032fbff2fd175feae59157e2dce713aab0133ff0675f91e469ee0/JA-RCA06-05-21-88-1-2.JPG" /> Fulfilment Services Ltd., images courtesy of Jack Arts https://sarahdaher.xyz/Link-to-Older-Exhibitions Fri, 30 Jul 2021 16:07:28 +0000 Sarah Daher https://sarahdaher.xyz/Link-to-Older-Exhibitions Older Exhibitions &nbsp; https://sarahdaher.xyz/Recent-Writing Thu, 02 Sep 2021 10:27:47 +0000 Sarah Daher https://sarahdaher.xyz/Recent-Writing Recent Writing &nbsp; Words by Sarah Daher&nbsp; by date of publication DigitalWhy I Don’t Blame Institutions Anymore for Alserkal.online, January 2022 ‘Total Landscaping’ at Warehouse 421 for Global Art Daily, June 2021 There’s a Hurricane at the Foundryfor Global Art Daily,&nbsp;March 2021 SEAF Cohort 7 at Warehouse 421 for Global Art Daily,&nbsp;November 2020 GAD Map: Arts &amp; Culture Relief for Beirut for Global Art Daily, August 2020 Print The Flâneur, the Karak-man, and the Turtle:&nbsp; A Case for what Loitering can do for the UAE Arts Scene upcoming for Impasto Magazine Dear Christopher for exhibition publication, September 2020 https://sarahdaher.xyz/Workshops-Panels-Talks Thu, 02 Sep 2021 11:54:01 +0000 Sarah Daher https://sarahdaher.xyz/Workshops-Panels-Talks Workshops - Panels - Programming &nbsp; Workshops Writing Workshop: Naqd Critique April 2021 Led a workshop on how developing a critical writing practice can be an entry point to the arts scene, with key pointers on how to work towards a generative criticality in the UAE (attended by over 30 people) Interviewing Workshop: Jameel Arts Center Upcoming Khosh Bosh participates in the Jameel Creative Career Days Festival with a “studio” booth and an interviewing workshop for young aspiring creatives PanelsSculpture Panel: ‘Identity and its Constituents’ July 2021 Design and moderation of a panel of RCA sculptors on the theme of ‘Identity and its Constituents’ as paer of RCA 2021 Artist Conversation: Taysir Batniji June 2021 Led a public conversation with artist Taysir Batniji on how his practice has taken shape within a state of crisis (attended by 25 people) Feedback Loop with Lawrence Abu Hamdan October 2021 Presented the ‘Telephone’ project to a feedback group of around 20 attendees moderated by Lawrence Abu Hamdan Curator Conversation: Ruba Al Sweel November 2021 A conversation with curator Ruba Al Sweel about a selection of films screened from her digital exhibition on Sumac Space, ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’. Held at Foundry Downtown, Dubai Roundtables: Engage101 x Aisha Alabbar February 2022 Moderated a closed room roundtable discussion that brought together individuals from the UAE’s arts ecosystem into unfiltered conversation with one another Programming After the Beep Children’s Sketching SessionJuly 2021 Led children through a sketching workshop in which they spontaneously responded to work hung in the exhibition After the Beep Art, Ecology, and the Commons: Film Program September-December 2021 Curated a program of feature films, shorts, and art films for TAP’s Art, Ecology, and the Commons Study held in Beirut, this film program later traveled to the Mosaic Rooms in London where it was on show throughout the month of December. Alserkal Slow Tour April 2022 Guided participants through an hour-long tour looking at three artworks from three Alserkal galleries, focusing on slow, deliberate, and sustained modes of attention