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Invocation for a Wandering Lake is a video projection on cardboard bifold panels by Patty Chang. Photo: The NYUAD Art Gallery
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The Only Constant group exhibition at The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery. All photos: Khusnum Bhandari / The National
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Taus Makhacheva’s Ring Road, a model of a mountain in the artist’s home town of Dagestan, Russia
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Dyson Sphere by Haroon Mirza
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The exhibition was partially inspired by Al Sawaber, a series of 2015 photographs by Tarek Al-Ghoussein that was named after a now-demolished housing complex in Kuwait
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Haroon Mirza's Dyson Sphere powers a musical contraption as well as a UV light fixture providing sustenance to medicinal plants
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Mirza’s Dyson Sphere is inspired by Olaf Stapledon's 1937 novel Star Maker
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City Fifth Investigation by Vivek Vilasini is a collection of 31 rice paper works printed by atmospheric pollutants
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The exhibition is curated by Maya Allison, executive director of The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery
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Invocation for a Wandering Lake is a video projection on cardboard bifold panels by Patty Chang. Photo: The NYUAD Art Gallery
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The Only Constant group exhibition at The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery. All photos: Khusnum Bhandari / The National
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Taus Makhacheva’s Ring Road, a model of a mountain in the artist’s home town of Dagestan, Russia
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Dyson Sphere by Haroon Mirza
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The exhibition was partially inspired by Al Sawaber, a series of 2015 photographs by Tarek Al-Ghoussein that was named after a now-demolished housing complex in Kuwait
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/QV7KPBS7WBH7XMWFHG3P5N2UOQ.jpg?smart=true&auth=3948f1ca96d44ca7c33a2eb0a4767fe67c49a1dfe3a1f53ba16590a1c201093d&width=400&height=225)
Haroon Mirza's Dyson Sphere powers a musical contraption as well as a UV light fixture providing sustenance to medicinal plants
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/XZPBXXIIDJDXDGD6DKL2SOAQP4.jpg?smart=true&auth=f806c22b98b0322901e085a614892fedd0d0678eaaf95d7d0f5ca6159fe58c6f&width=400&height=225)
Mirza’s Dyson Sphere is inspired by Olaf Stapledon's 1937 novel Star Maker
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City Fifth Investigation by Vivek Vilasini is a collection of 31 rice paper works printed by atmospheric pollutants
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The exhibition is curated by Maya Allison, executive director of The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery
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Invocation for a Wandering Lake is a video projection on cardboard bifold panels by Patty Chang. Photo: The NYUAD Art Gallery
Group exhibition at NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery questions idea of utopia
The Only Constant was inspired by the work of late Kuwaiti-Palestinian artist Tarek Al-Ghoussein
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Razmig Bedirian
23 February, 2023
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