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Afterglow / From the Residue of a Departed Sun / now open @ Frieze No. 9 Cork Street, London, until 21 Novembr 2026

Afterglow / From the Residue of a Departed Sun / now open @ Frieze No. 9 Cork Street, London, until 21 Novembr 2026

Credit: Omar Kholeif, The Shape of My Pain When I’m Not Dancing, oil on canvas, 100 × 100 × 10 cm, [framed], 2024-2026.

For No.9 Frieze Cork Street, London, October 2026, Tabari presents Afterglow: From the Residue of a Departed Sun, a group exhibition of new works by four artists: Maitha Abdalla (b. 1989, Khorfakkan, UAE), Omar Kholeif (b. Cairo, Egypt; British-Egyptian-Sudanese), Mohamed Monaiseer (b. 1989, Cairo, Egypt) and Randa Maddah (b. 1983, occupied Golan Heights), working across painting, spoken word and poetry, installation, mixed media and sculpture.

Afterglow is the light that keeps vigil after its source has set below the horizon. Taken as the theme of this group presentation, Afterglow invites a double reading: it is the residue of a departed sun, but also the light a body radiates in the act of living. Maitha Abdalla, Omar Kholeif, Mohamed Monaiseer and Randa Maddah each render the border between life and death porous, drawing on their own inner cosmologies: Emirati folk narratives, the African trickster myth, Islamic metaphysics, and the doctrine of the soul that animates culture in the Golan Heights. Celestial forms effloresce across the gallery walls, transmitting a visual vocabulary that interrogates the scope of the unconscious, the uncanny, and the threshold beyond the tangible realm and the immaterial dimensions of the imagination.

Book cover featuring a stylized illustration of a woman lying on her back with her legs raised, in shades of blue, yellow, and orange. The title is 'Huguette Caland' by Omar Khleif, with an afterword by Dr. Brigitte Caland.
Book cover for "Lalitha Lajmi" by Skye Arundhati-Thomas, with additional words by Dr. Omar Kholeif. The cover illustration features a stylized portrait of a woman with blue hair in a braid, wearing a striped top and a dark patterned jacket, set against a white background.

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Lalitha Lajmi by Skye Arundhati-Thomas (imagine/otherwise 3).
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Book cover titled 'Melt' by Yalter, featuring duplicated images of hands and eyes in sepia tone with bold, blocky text.

Nil Yalter: Circular Tension by Omar Kholeif published by Mousse. Available here.

Revisit archival photos of Beirut and its ‘Golden 60s’. Dive into a treasure trove of materials surrounding the first contemporary art gallery in Lebanon, Gallery One. Helen Khal: Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s is co-edited and authored by Omar Kholeif with Carla Chammas and Rachel Dedman, following on from an exhibition curated by Dedman and Chammas at the Sursock Museum in 2019. You can preview or order your copy here.

Cover of a book titled 'Magda Stawarska' by Omar Kholeif with an afterword by Lubaina Himid, featuring three red water valves on a textured wall, and the Sternberg Press logo at the bottom.

Magda Stawarska by Omar Kholeif with an afterword by Lubaina Himid (imagine/otherwise 2). Available here.