Ayyam Gallery Dubai (12, Alserkal Avenue) announces Machine Hearts, the solo show of British- Iraqi artist Athier.
Machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! - From The Great Dictator’s Speech, Charlie Chaplin, 1940.
Machine Hearts centres on large-scale, semi-abstracted paintings made over the last two years. Full of aggressive, visceral energy, the eponymous, featured series is a continuation of the Man of War series, in which the artist explored the contemporary phenomenon of drone warfare. Still preoccupied by the spectre of war, Athier’s new body of work attempts to visualise the mechanical heart of an active soldier and asks: What is the unseen core that powers a human killing machine?
