Dom Art Projects presents its programme at its Al Khayat Avenue space in Dubai, offering a new cultural experience for visitors spending Eid and summer in the city. Through exhibitions, artist studios, talks, screenings and workshops, the programme creates space for discovery, reflection, and connection, anchored by the group exhibition Time That Grows Slowly, a solo presentation by Petr Kirusha, and a new initiative supporting UAE- based artists.

Dom Art Projects presents a group exhibition, curated by Alexander Burenkov, titled Time That Grows Slowly. The exhibition is inspired by ideas attuned to vegetal temporalities of being in the world, reflecting on philosophical reflections of time as growth rather than movement. The exhibition features works by cross-regional artists, many of whom have never been shown in Dubai before.

Time, as humans experience it, is inseparable from the vegetal. The oxygen we breathe, the food we consume, the rhythms of agriculture and settlement, all are shaped by plant life. Yet this dependency remains largely invisible. Time That Grows Slowly seeks to render it perceptible, exploring whether it is possible to inhabit, even momentarily, the ‘umwelt’ of plants: to perceive the world from a vegetal perspective. Grouped around site-specific installations attentive to care and interspecies communication, the exhibition engages ecological, feminist, philosophical, and postcolonial concerns.

Running alongside the group exhibition is a solo presentation by Petr Kirusha (b.1978, Russia/Latvia), featuring works developed during his residency at Dom Art Projects.

Kirusha documented the landscapes of Al Quoz and the rapidly changing cityscape of Dubai, while producing a series of drawings shaped by the intensity of the city during this period, capturing both the immediate environment and the psychological atmosphere of those days. These observations later evolved into paintings and works on paper.

Studio Residents
Dom Art Projects reaffirmed its commitment to supporting artists as an independent institution by offering studio space to seven UAE-based artists, providing a place for them to pursue their practice and continue to develop current projects over the next six months.

The UAE-based artists that will occupy studios are: Sara Masinae; Joumana Mortada; Meher Afroz Vahid; Rabila Kidwai; Aisha Alhammadi; Divyaaunshi Purohit; Teng Miras. Projects to be explored in the studios include the development of performative and visual works responding to themes of urbanism, narrative and embodied experience, and a long-term painting project that explores how memory and lived experience, including the impact of trauma, continue to shape us beyond geography.