Al Quoz, Dubai - best of three (GREYNOISE)

GREYNOISE  can be found at Unit 24 Alserkal Avenue and until 3 October 2013 is exhibiting work by Charbel-joseph H. Boutros & Stéphanie Saadé. I was shown around this exhibition, which ended up being a good thing because there is no way I would have interpreted the pieces as they were meant to be seen. This is a very clever exhibition full of installations which made you question their reality. Like 'Neon enclosing its own light #2' (Charbel-joseph H. Boutros) a neon light painted black, which you could either believe that the light was on, or that it was just a neon tube painted black. I chose to believe the light was on (in case you were wondering).

'Mixed water, Lebanon Israel' is a piece referring directly to the Lebanese and Israeli conflict around water rights. It manages the impossible political and physical acts by merging the water from both locations.

Stéphanie Saadé's 'Nostalgic Geography' maps her walk from her home in Paris to her friends house in Paris. When she imposes this onto a map of Lebanon, it also mirrors the walk from her childhood home in Lebanon to her grandmothers house. To the exact same distance (not sure if I really believed this one but it makes for a good story).