MESH & MAYHEM
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Talal Al Najjar’s Mesh & Mayhem, curated by Salem AlSuwaidi, unravels a terrain where digital architectures and localized memory entwine, forming a fabric stretched thin across speculative futures and fractured realities. The exhibition confronts the way simulation infiltrates geography and biology—where the mesh becomes both structure and rupture, at once a connective tissue and a site of collapse.
Repetition is never mere duplication but a force of excess; here it manifests in the recursive circulation of meshes, video fragments, and 3D surfaces that endlessly reproduce without resolution. In AlNajjar’s hands, repetition builds toward abundance, toward mayhem, toward a psychic overload that mirrors the saturated image-economy of 2025.
Video game engines, with their banalized depictions of violence and their indifference to cultural specificity, loom large as a visual and conceptual language. Al Najjar...More
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Talal Al Najjar’s Mesh & Mayhem, curated by Salem AlSuwaidi, unravels a terrain where digital architectures and localized memory entwine, forming a fabric stretched thin across speculative futures and fractured realities. The exhibition confronts the way simulation infiltrates geography and biology—where the mesh becomes both structure and rupture, at once a connective tissue and a site of collapse.
Repetition is never mere duplication but a force of excess; here it manifests in the recursive circulation of meshes, video fragments, and 3D surfaces that endlessly reproduce without resolution. In AlNajjar’s hands, repetition builds toward abundance, toward mayhem, toward a psychic overload that mirrors the saturated image-economy of 2025.
Video game engines, with their banalized depictions of violence and their indifference to cultural specificity, loom large as a visual and conceptual language. Al Najjar...More
