Dom Art Projects presents Time That Grows Slowly, a group exhibition, curated by Alexander Burenkov.

Participating artists: Maha Alasaker (Kuwait / UAE), Srijon Chowdhury (Bangladesh / USA), Odonchimeg Davaadorj (Mongolia / France), Patricia Domínguez (Chile), Kwama Frigaux (Ghana / France), Mevlana Lipp (Germany), Sulafa Mohammed(UAE), Tabita Rezaire (France), Shaima Shamsi (Saudi Arabia / Bahrain / UAE), Farah Soltani (Iran / UAE), Antoine Renard (France), and Nadia Waheed (Saudi Arabia / Pakistan / USA).

Time That Grows Slowly reflects on philosophical constructs of time as growth rather than movement, turning to vegetal temporalities as an alternative mode of being in the world. These ideas play out in works by cross-regional artists, many of whom have never been shown in Dubai before.

Time, as humans experience it, is inseparable from the botanical world. The oxygen we breathe, the food we consume, the rhythms of agriculture — all are shaped by plant life. Yet this dependency remains largely invisible. Time That Grows Slowly seeks to render it perceptible, exploring whether it is possible to inhabit (even momentarily) the "umwelt" of plants: to perceive the world from a vegetal perspective. Grouped around site-specific installations attentive to care and interspecies communication, the exhibition engages ecological, feminist, philosophical, and postcolonial concerns.

As curator Alexander Burenkov explains: “Against the backdrop of Dubai’s fast-paced urban environment, Time That Grows Slowly proposes a tool kit for slowing down and reorienting to the rhythms of plants. The creation of a space for vegetal attunement in these dynamic urban conditions raises questions about how duration, memory, and lived experience are produced within such environments. Plants grow, decay, regenerate, and coexist according to rhythms that defy linear progress. Vegetal existence is not oriented toward goals, optimization, or dominance. It persists through exposure, vulnerability, and repetition. In this sense, the contemporary artists are interested in exploring vegetal time because it introduces an ethics of non-acceleration: a way of inhabiting the world that neither conquers time nor seeks to escape it.”