“Why do we have gaps in our memories?”
“How are you making a difference in the world?”
These are questions posed by artists to their audiences in WAW, short for “we are wondering”, a debut group exhibition of six artists living in the UAE.
As the title suggests, wondering is a theme throughout the show, most noticeably with the labels next to each work that spell out the artists’ questions. But there’s also wondering as a “collective exercise”, as curator Daniel H Rey puts it. It's an activity shared by us all, he says, not just for amusement, but as a gateway to critical thinking.