Summer Collective: you + topia II

18 June - 12 September 2019

Ayyam Gallery is pleased to present the second edition of you + topia, a collective exhibition featuring the works of leading contemporary artists from the Middle East. 

 

Over five hundred years ago, Sir Thomas More wrote ‘Utopia’; a novel proposing an ideal form of human organisation. The word ‘utopia’ translates as ‘no place’, existing only as an unreachable state of perfection. Yet ‘no place’ is exactly how this generation feels about the idea of belonging. Instead, we live in a world where the majority of citizens have lost their hope in the existence of a system able to accommodate all of its inhabitants.