MutualArt's listing for 85 Seconds To Midnight records Mohamed Monaiseer's solo exhibition at Tabari Artspace, Gate Village Building 3, Dubai, running from 11 September to 1 October 2026. The entry describes a show built around historical cycles and the blurred boundary between imagination and reality, with Monaiseer investigating how patterns of war, occupation and imperial power recur across contexts and generations, altering borders, enemies and technologies while the underlying structures of domination persist.
The listing notes that the body of work was developed during the Gaza conflict while Monaiseer held a residency at Can Serrat in Spain, and that its title measures humanity's proximity to catastrophe against the Doomsday Clock's current setting, with time functioning as both countdown and cyclical pattern. It describes the artist drawing on a deliberately wide range of source material, from news reports and digital imagery to literature, oral histories, conspiracy theories, folklore and myth, each offering a subjective account that blurs the line between what is imagined, perceived and believed.
Tabari represents Mohamed Monaiseer, and the MutualArt listing gives collectors and visitors the gallery's Dubai venue details alongside this account of the exhibition's premise. As an aggregator entry rather than a reported piece, it draws its description directly from the exhibition's own framing rather than independent commentary.
