Shaima Shamsi — Artist Reading
Parallel programme of Time that Grows Slowly
As part of the parallel programme of Time that Grows Slowly, Dom Art Projects invites artist Shaima Shamsi to read her essay accompanying her work What is more generous than a window?, presented in the exhibition.
Born and raised in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and currently based in Bahrain, Shamsi’s practice explores how movement and the passage of time leave traces of eroded belonging that shape mutated identities. Working across installation, sculpture, painting, and works on paper, she examines absence, erasure, and territory, asking how systems determine what is made visible, preserved, or allowed to disappear.
For this reading, Shamsi will share the text developed alongside her quadriptych What is more generous than a window? The work begins with a fleeting view from a moving car at 120 km/h, along highways that dissolve into a continuous field of green. What initially appears as effortless nature gradually reveals itself as a constructed and regulated landscape.
Built through layers of gouache, acrylic, and oil pastel, the four canvases hold this accelerated image in suspension. Shamsi asks how language and systems of visibility shape our understanding of landscapes and what happens when concepts such as “sustainability” become embedded within structures that regulate and administer land and resources.
At the centre of the work is a simple but unresolved question: can a visual field be beautiful and unjust at the same time?
Between the speed of passing images and the slower temporality of memory, Shamsi’s work opens a space for considering alternative futures not only sustainable, but equitable. The reading shares an opportunity to encounter the work through the artist’s own words and to linger with the questions unfolding between landscape, movement, memory, and belonging.
Shamsi is currently based in Bahrain. Her work has been exhibited regionally and internationally at Mutable Devotions, Rizq Art Iniative (2026), Abu Dhabi (2026), Blue Gold, Isola Gallery, Dubai (2026), A Room of One’ s Own, NYUAD Project Space, Abu Dhabi (2025), OFFCUT CUTOFF, Fakhro House, Bahrain (2025), Pagale, Paris (2025), Tanafaas, AlUla (2023), Re Appearing Imagineries, Misk Institute, Riyadh (2022), Vision 20/20, Riwaq Art Space, Bahrain (2023), Shara Art Fair, Jeddah (2020); London Design Week, London (2018).
Born and raised in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and currently based in Bahrain, Shamsi’s practice explores how movement and the passage of time leave traces of eroded belonging that shape mutated identities. Working across installation, sculpture, painting, and works on paper, she examines absence, erasure, and territory, asking how systems determine what is made visible, preserved, or allowed to disappear.
For this reading, Shamsi will share the text developed alongside her quadriptych What is more generous than a window? The work begins with a fleeting view from a moving car at 120 km/h, along highways that dissolve into a continuous field of green. What initially appears as effortless nature gradually reveals itself as a constructed and regulated landscape.
Built through layers of gouache, acrylic, and oil pastel, the four canvases hold this accelerated image in suspension. Shamsi asks how language and systems of visibility shape our understanding of landscapes and what happens when concepts such as “sustainability” become embedded within structures that regulate and administer land and resources.
At the centre of the work is a simple but unresolved question: can a visual field be beautiful and unjust at the same time?
Between the speed of passing images and the slower temporality of memory, Shamsi’s work opens a space for considering alternative futures not only sustainable, but equitable. The reading shares an opportunity to encounter the work through the artist’s own words and to linger with the questions unfolding between landscape, movement, memory, and belonging.
Shamsi is currently based in Bahrain. Her work has been exhibited regionally and internationally at Mutable Devotions, Rizq Art Iniative (2026), Abu Dhabi (2026), Blue Gold, Isola Gallery, Dubai (2026), A Room of One’ s Own, NYUAD Project Space, Abu Dhabi (2025), OFFCUT CUTOFF, Fakhro House, Bahrain (2025), Pagale, Paris (2025), Tanafaas, AlUla (2023), Re Appearing Imagineries, Misk Institute, Riyadh (2022), Vision 20/20, Riwaq Art Space, Bahrain (2023), Shara Art Fair, Jeddah (2020); London Design Week, London (2018).
DATE
September 1, 2026, 6:00PM
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