Artbooth Gallery is thrilled to announce the upcoming solo exhibition of the acclaimed Emirati artist Sarah Alagroobi, titled Slanted dreamscape. This captivating exhibition will showcase Alagroobi’s evocative and textured landscapes, providing a unique glimpse into her dreamlike visions and innovative artistic approach. The show will be held in Artbooth Gallery on the ground floor of Centro Capital Centre by Rotana in the ADNEC area from September 19 to October 27, 2024.

Sarah Alagroobi’s work invites viewers into a world where reality and imagination intersect. Her paintings, rich with texture and form, explore dreamlike mountains and surreal terrains, offering a profound sense of otherworldly contemplation. Alagroobi’s art celebrates the physical and metaphysical realms, using layers of acrylic paint to sculpt imagined landscapes that transcend conventional boundaries of time and place. Each piece blurs the lines between the tangible and the abstract, immersing the viewer in vibrant forms and colors that reflect the artist’s inner consciousness.

In Slanted dreamscape, Alagroobi presents a series of works that reflect her journey through imagined lands distorted by memory. Through repetitive motifs and dynamic compositions, the series captures the fluidity of belonging to both familiar and unfamiliar worlds. Her paintings reveal a continuous search for the imaginary within the expansive landscapes of the mind, celebrating both the known and the unknown.

Alagroobi describes her artistic approach as one of raw authenticity and unapologetic expression. She emphasizes that her work is not constrained by fear or the need for explicit conceptual definitions. Instead, it emerges from a place of ambiguity and abstraction, reflecting her experiences of navigating multiple cultural identities. Alagroobi’s paintings offer a direct and unfiltered representation of her artistic process, presenting depth and surface in their most authentic forms. Artbooth Gallery invites art enthusiasts to experience this profound exhibition and engage with Sarah Alagroobi’s unique vision. Slanted dreamscape promises to be an inspiring journey through the intersections of reality and imagination, offering an exploration of the artist’s rich inner world.

Sarah Alagroobi, born in Brussels, Belgium, is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator who holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in London. She explores notions of culture and identity in both Arab and Western contexts through post-colonial discourse. She uses her Emirati and Syrian heritage to mine personal and collective experiences that portray an agile simplicity in expression of place, borders and a sense of belonging. Her work has gathered the attention of leading design magazines ESTRO, ID and Close-Up and has been exhibited regionally and internationally at Somerset House, London, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Versus Art Project, Istanbul, Venice Biennale, Dutch Design Week, ME Collectors Room, Berlin and Warehouse421, Art Jameel, Art Dubai and Abu Dhabi Art and Serkal Avenue.