Visitors at the opening of As We Gaze Upon Her on October 16. The show is on view at Warehouse421 until January
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Baya Collective's 'Women of Ourselves' aims to challenge the western male gaze. All photo: Warehouse421
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Maitha Hamdan's 'Precautions' is a video work of a person eating ice cream through a veil as a way to satirise sexualised imagery of women
As We Gaze Upon Her explores womanhood and the idea of woman, its definitions, permutations and complications
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Farwa Moledina's 'You must choose your part in the end' shows the subject purposefully appearing 'cold, lacklustre and unerotic'
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Sarah Ibrahim's 'The Distance and The Maps' from 'Who we are out of the dark' series features cyanotype silk and fabric prints made with imprints of the artist's body
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'Underneath My Cloth' by Suleika Mueller shows a subject draped in white fabric, obscuring any defining characteristics
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Umber Majeed reimagines Pakistan's history, putting a feminist twist to it in the work 'Hypersurface of the Present'
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Saba Askari's work is comprised of used make-up wipes
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Rania Jishi takes aim at domestic objects in 'Dinner Is Served', a series of hand-painted ceramics
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In 'Sanad' by Jude Al-Keraishan, the artist shows the destruction of a 'masnad' through a sequence of monochromatic photographs
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Tala Worrell's painting 'P and Vinegar', which serves as an abstract visual journal for the artist
Visitors at the opening of As We Gaze Upon Her on October 16. The show is on view at Warehouse421 until January
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Baya Collective's 'Women of Ourselves' aims to challenge the western male gaze. All photo: Warehouse421
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/FFKLTYS4RFANFHBIE2OPMLYN3M.png?smart=true&auth=1ab7f5d0fd0c905d4f3156358175b60f8d427ff3745f5bd8e2a5a156e6dce68f&width=400&height=225)
Maitha Hamdan's 'Precautions' is a video work of a person eating ice cream through a veil as a way to satirise sexualised imagery of women
As We Gaze Upon Her explores womanhood and the idea of woman, its definitions, permutations and complications
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/FEN6RUUCHBBLLEP4UE5DJW3TNM.jpeg?smart=true&auth=b5625927926e2f46d5372546a149239d092b1f9602c8aa04334eb1dfd265b1e3&width=400&height=225)
Farwa Moledina's 'You must choose your part in the end' shows the subject purposefully appearing 'cold, lacklustre and unerotic'
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/EDCWOGNMC5ARHCEEICBKUABYDM.png?smart=true&auth=f2ad16483ffbf4b1e4da26a9f808cf39c4179262e8fb53399d87bbd16e9cb522&width=400&height=225)
Sarah Ibrahim's 'The Distance and The Maps' from 'Who we are out of the dark' series features cyanotype silk and fabric prints made with imprints of the artist's body
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/OYQFY2HJEFDNZK6FDDUHLMUZUU.jpg?smart=true&auth=180a9c0f3428f66de80f4070d717c811b0cd31ffa2c1e5ce4072a289970667aa&width=400&height=225)
'Underneath My Cloth' by Suleika Mueller shows a subject draped in white fabric, obscuring any defining characteristics
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/2M26JP7NHZANDMF6GBNNVHLT5M.jpeg?smart=true&auth=1a980e71b53e843e5367f482edcce31672d3f0c317e40190b7e881f06f3542d8&width=400&height=225)
Umber Majeed reimagines Pakistan's history, putting a feminist twist to it in the work 'Hypersurface of the Present'
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/ZXFRXGCPLZC3XEE33EAXUVV5P4.jpeg?smart=true&auth=8b7514182e5614b8eb6dc9234034f14d5e42c0a2c6aca9db23c63a1341f284d6&width=400&height=225)
Saba Askari's work is comprised of used make-up wipes
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/OGSZ3VT5ORHFVGDSUYMJBQTBUQ.jpg?smart=true&auth=f0869113621d7539dccb151f3f65cbeb95ad46a431172356450075f19801dbdb&width=400&height=225)
Rania Jishi takes aim at domestic objects in 'Dinner Is Served', a series of hand-painted ceramics
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/6KWH5FIUMJGHNPJCKK7TKK6R54.jpg?smart=true&auth=6486f8b8b3644df9401c623daf88b1d13e619bd36e26b7820d1f96e5d8b9f42d&width=400&height=225)
In 'Sanad' by Jude Al-Keraishan, the artist shows the destruction of a 'masnad' through a sequence of monochromatic photographs
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/6A2WNR47PZE6JDYRMMJ5R455Z4.jpg?smart=true&auth=6f10985de660f97cba4a8723b76c537672576a23bb49fb930654be35792fa8ba&width=400&height=225)
Tala Worrell's painting 'P and Vinegar', which serves as an abstract visual journal for the artist
Visitors at the opening of As We Gaze Upon Her on October 16. The show is on view at Warehouse421 until January
Review: New Abu Dhabi art show aims to challenge how we define womanhood
The show, curated by the Banat Collective, touches on the complexities of gender
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Alexandra Chaves
20 October, 2021
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