Articles By: Troy Pieper

ArtReview
Connected Narratives: Sharjah Biennial 16
 Visiting the sprawling cultural odyssey that is the 16th Sharjah Biennial, the first question is…
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ArtReview
Losing Our Way: Group Show at 421
An exhibition focused on rainforests and wetlands mounted in one of Earth’s most arid regions…
Troy Pieper
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ArtReview
Connections That Shouldn’t Be Made: Vikram Divecha at Jameel Arts Centre
Short Circuits allows Vikram Divecha to consider the hours he has spent interacting with people…
Troy Pieper
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ArtReview
Rising Above the Waves of the Past: Group Show at Bayt AlMamzar
Crystal Clear, currently at Dubai’s Bayt AlMamzar, acknowledges that it can be difficult sometimes to…
Troy Pieper
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ArtReview
Hotel Reservations: Group Show at Jameel Arts Centre
When the world was on lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic, my partner and I broke…
Troy Pieper
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ArtMuseum
Threading Connections: Cartier at Louvre Abu Dhabi
The decorative arts of 19th-century Paris embraced eclecticism, a medley of styles from the past…
Troy Pieper
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ArtReview
After the End: Group Show at 421  
Nine Nodes of Non-Being is not about climate anxiety, or the panic of imagining our…
Troy Pieper
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ArtReview
Pascale Marthine Tayou at the Cultural Foundation
LOBI LOBI, Pascale Marthine Tayou’s first UAE exhibition is a generous one, filling the majority…
Troy Pieper
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ArtProfile
Rand Abdul Jabbar
Earthly Wonders, Celestial Beings (2019), Rand Abdul Jabbar’s ongoing series of clay sculptures, draws from…
Troy Pieper
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ArtReview
Re-Enchanting the Quotidian
“In these words glimmer the Surrealist proposal for finding the marvellous in the banal,” writes…
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ArtProfile
Nasser Alzayani
Many Bahrainis have memories of the springs at Ain Adhari, a beloved holiday destination where…
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