Artsy's monthly selection of exhibitions at smaller galleries, written by Katie White, picks five shows in London, Cologne, New York, Oslo and Scottsdale. The London entry leads the piece: Afterglow: From the Residue of a Departed Sun, presented by Tabari at No.9 Cork Street and introduced as the Dubai gallery's London showing.
The article describes an exhibition working along the boundary between life and death, drawing on Emirati folk narrative, the African trickster figure and Islamic metaphysics, and moving between painting, spoken word and poetry, installation, mixed media and sculpture. Mohamed Monaiseer is discussed for constellation-like botanical forms painted on cotton, with Barzakh #11 (2025–2026), acrylic and ink on cotton fabric, reproduced. Maitha Abdalla is described through gestural scenes in which animal and human forms merge, illustrated by Will the Gods Belong?, 8 (2023), oil on board. Randa Maddah, born in the occupied Golan Heights in 1983, is noted for images of women turning into birds and trees alongside her work in puppetry and film, and Omar Kholeif's abstractions are discussed as the work of an artist better known as a curator and writer. The run is given as closing on 21 November.
Afterglow brings three artists from the gallery's programme to a London audience in the same weeks as Fellow Travellers in DIFC and the presentation at Frieze Abu Dhabi. For Mohamed Monaiseer it follows his solo exhibition 85 Seconds To Midnight at Tabari, and the selection places the show beside independent galleries in Europe and the United States rather than within a regional survey.
