The exhibition at the Warehouse 421 in Abu Dhabi questions institutional memory. Between museums, memorials and archives, what is remembered and how? By examining contemporary modes of memory, the exhibition looks at the relationship between remembrance and history, and reflects on the aesthetics, techniques, provenance and language that are deployed in the process of memory making.
Set against the backdrop of Mahmoud Darwish's poem "On the Last Evening on This Earth", the exhibition reconsiders these memories through the prism of catastrophe, particularly colonisation, at a time when several cultural institutions are obliged to return art objects to their countries of origin.
The artists who contributed to this exhibition, curated by Mona Al-Jadir, are : Maitha Abdalla, Rand Abdul Jabbar, Reem Al Menhali, Emii Alrai, Moza Almatrooshi, Nasser Alzayani, Hadeyeh Badri, Rohini Devasher, Vikram Divecha, Mirella Salamé, Sara Smarrazzo, Dima Srouji and Fatima Uzdenova.