"LOVE: Still Not the Lesser brings together twelve international artists, uniting across communities to share the ways they encounter and understand love. These artists explore dynamics within romantic partnership, sensual eroticism, family structures, social utopia, and life and death. They observe and declare circumstances of love that serve various intentions."
EXHIBITION INFORMATION ON MOCP
"تاذلا aldhat) بح , 3˛) hub) is an inkjet print mounted on aluminum. The Arabic word for love repeats as text pattern in bright red, overlaying lilac fabric and a deep purple background, while the lilac cloth fully covers and obscures a human form. Lacking an individual identity, the sitter conjures multiple politicizations of the body (viewers likely sense these allusions). Yet as an apt closing note for the exhibition, in the image by Ali— and the wider composition of her well-known series overall—love wins, through definitive repetition and insistence. "
