The Art Gallery at NYU Abu Dhabi has announced the next show at its auxiliary venue, The Project Space. Titled 'Woven Identities', the exhibition examines how individuals adapt or conform to their immediate environment, and explores the transient lifestyle in the UAE.

Opening on 5th July and running until 22nd July, the duo show will feature modern contemporary installations expressing renewable themes in art by Dubai-based emerging artists, Stephanie Neville and Jeff Scofield.

Scofield and Neville explore a subjective narrative with the environment in conjunction with society, where the individual is led through an adventure towards self-identity. Scofield said, "By weaving together natural materials and found objects, we construct visual narratives through a tactile process of collecting and assembling, thereby giving new meaning to materials."

The exhibition explores the inter-connectedness that binds individuals in the context of transience and flux, defining shared experiences in the UAE, while sustaining their personal identity. Neville explained, "This construction is likened to the essence of fabric, the warp and weft of individual threads combined to strengthen and unify, while also providing malleability and adaptability."

The visual investigation is made through various applications of woven materials. Attention is paid to expressing the intrinsic nature of these materials, such as the durability of textiles and the fragility of the separable threads, the delicateness of individual sheets of paper juxtaposed with the power of words, the mutual reinforcing of industrial materials such as metal wires and wooden blocks, as well as the organic expression of natural elements manifested in cotton, felt and threads.

Having previously collaborated at an Artist in Residence programme at the Liwa Art Hub, both artists investigate the use of salvaged and upcycled materials. A dialogue exists between their individual styles, highlighted by an interest in installation art and contrasting yet complimentary explorations of materials at large and small scales.

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