Finding My Blue Sky proposes new ways of looking and feeling one’s way through art by tracing different paths through modernity.

Curated by Dr. Omar Kholeif

Featuring:

Lawrence Abu Hamdan | Souad Abdelrassoul | Sonia Balassanian | Huguette Caland | Saloua Raouda Choucair | Sarah Cunningham | Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian | Simone Fattal | Hugh Hayden | Celia Hempton | Paul Heyer | Susan Hiller | Lubaina Himid | Leiko Ikemura | Anuar Khalifi | John Latham | Haroon Mirza | Otobong Nkanga | Luísa Correia Pereira | Laure Prouvost | Michael Rakowitz | Chelenge van Rampelberg | Hrair Sarkissian | Sean Scully | Gor Soudan | Magda Stawarska | Liliane Tomasko | Miko Veldkamp | Barbara Walker

“The show is my love-letter to London, a city that I have continually returned to over the last four decades. It is a journey of retreat and surrender that will be familiar to millions in search of a sense of longing and belonging — of home, of sacred space.” – Omar Kholeif, PhD, curator of Finding My Blue Sky

Sean Scully RA Rabat Blue 2024 Oil on aluminium 152.4 x 134.6 cm (Image courtesy of the artist)

Join pioneering artist, Sean Scully RA, proponent of emotional abstraction and one of the most distinguished artists of our time, and Omar Kholeif, co-curator of the current exhibition, Peter Sedgley: 5 Decades, for a live in-situ talk at The Redfern Gallery, London.The duo will consider the sensory illusion of looking; the possibilities of fiction; poetry and the voice, taking us on a freeflowing journey up and down lanes of memory, which brim with both energy and feeling.

RSVP: info@redfern-gallery.com 020 7734 1732

RSVP is essential as numbers will be limited. Seating will be on a first come, first served basis.

MAISON RABIH KAYROUZ invites you into the heart of their London Store to pay homage to the late POLYMATH HELEN KHAL and The Enduring Legacy of GALLERY ONE, the first contemporary art gallery in Lebanon.

This special event marks the UK launch of HELEN KHAL: GALLERY ONE AND BEIRUT IN THE 1960s, published by STERNBERG PRESS.

Join the Book’s authors CARLA CHAMMAS, RACHEL DEDMAN and DR OMAR KHOLEIF over drinks and refreshments to convene around the transformative creativity of the Lebanese Diaspora.

Please RSVP to presse@maisonrabihkayrouz.com by October 6th