Canvas published Leila Lebreton's review of Afterglow: From the Residue of a Departed Sun on 12 November 2026, walking through Tabari's group exhibition at Frieze's No.9 Cork Street in London.
The review opens with the questions that shape the show: what is left when the light goes out, and what of our energy and presence persists after we have departed. Lebreton moves through both rooms, reading paintings, shrouds and sculptures together with poems by Professor Omar Kholeif. They present work in the exhibition as one of the four artists, alongside Maitha Abdalla, Mohamed Monaiseer and Randa Maddah. The four, the review says, turn to the unseen and to radiance that outlasts its source.
Afterglow is Tabari's current London exhibition, on view at No.9 Cork Street from 29 October to 21 November 2026. This is the first substantial third party review of the show to go on the News page.
Lebreton reads individual works closely, including shrouds, sculptures and paintings that hold light after its source has gone, and she treats Kholeif's poems as part of the same conversation rather than as wall text only.
Tabari presents Maitha Abdalla, Professor Omar Kholeif, Mohamed Monaiseer and Randa Maddah.
