Yellow Tropics
Tabari Airspace,Dubai,UAE
Yellow Tropics is a solo exhibition by Egyptian painter Adel El Siwi, his first in more than a decade. As a painter for more than 50 years, El Siwi has come to define himself through a construct of personal identity with a point of origin set in his native Egypt. The title of the exhibition hints at El Siwi’s desire to reclaim an element of his identity, not solely as an Egyptian but as an African. The artworks have been produced as early as the 1980s with figures and subjects in the works that are by no means meant to be fanciful allusions or insinuations but rather, in the manner of magical realism, invocations of a somewhat distant parallel universe. Tabari Airspace, Dubai, UAE, through Jan. 6.
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