Gallery Isabelle Dubai Presents Group Exhibition on Nature and Transformation

Gallery Isabelle in Dubai is hosting 'I Wish to Be Happy, I Want to Be Yellow,' a group exhibition featuring artists who explore visceral connections with nature. The show includes works by Dalia Baassiri, whose piece 'When The Season Returns XXIV' incorporates acrylic, wall paint from the Fayyad Building post-Beirut Explosion, graphite, threads, hot glue sticks, organza fabric, archival glue, and varnish on canvas. The exhibition examines themes of disembodiment and re-embodiment, presenting nature as fluid and merging with human, animal, and mechanical forms. Artists use ephemeral materials such as food, twigs, ants, flowers, leaves, and candle wax in installations, photographs, sculptures, assemblages, collages, textiles, papers, and paintings. The press release references psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton's concept of the 'protean self' from his book 'The Protean Self: Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation,' describing a fluid, multi-sided self appropriate to contemporary flux. The exhibition challenges notions of 'being in the world' and aims to remind viewers of bodily vulnerability and the weight of the world. The show runs at Gallery Isabelle in Dubai.