What a week it’s been.
A heart felt thank you to the @artdubai team, @benedettaghione , @dunjagottweis , @alexieglass , @natashacarella and everyone else you guys are legends for pulling off such an incredible Art Dubai and for your continued love, support and belief in us.
A huge thank you to our own @ohrobella who while not physically being here was with me remotely and made everything happen so smoothly.
And to our artists for believing in what we are creating at @dastaangoigallery
To all our interns for their support during the fair.
And finally to you our community, our friends, family and collectors without whom we wouldn’t have gotten this far.
The first time we ever do a fair and we couldn’t be happier with the outcome.
With gratitude,
Amad
Special thank you to @marinavvetrova for the beautiful reel.
Pomegranates of Kandahar
Inspired by the sun-drenched orchards of Kandahar, this scent captures the bold, refreshing spirit of a fruit steeped in legend. Juicy pomegranate forms the heart of the fragrance — sweet yet tart — while cool peppermint cuts through with an invigorating freshness. A touch of rosemary grounds the blend, adding a green, herbal twist that lingers on the skin of memory.
Notes: Peppermint, pomegranate and rosemary
Available to shop at Dastaangoi.com
The small ritual of taking a record out of its sleeve carefully, placing it on the turntable, cleaning the dust with your fingertips, and waiting for that soft crackle before the music begins. It made listening feel sacred.
Across the Global East, old records traveled through homes, cafés, taxis, weddings, and tiny shops hidden in crowded streets. Music from Cairo, Lahore, Istanbul, Khartoum, Beirut, Algiers — voices full of longing, joy, heartbreak, resistance. People did not listen alone all the time. They sat together, argued about songs, replayed favorite parts, told stories about singers they loved. Records became memory keepers.
There is something deeply human about vinyl culture that feels missing today. Streaming gives us everything instantly, but old records asked for patience. You had to sit with an album. You had to feel it fully. Maybe that is why people still return to records. Not for nostalgia alone, but to remember what it feels like to truly listen.
Photos via @habibifunk
Dastaangoi Gallery is proud to announce its participation in Art Dubai 2026 at Madinat Jumeirah, May 14 - 17, Booth A11
Shamir’s practice exists in an ongoing dialogue between painting and cinema. Drawing from the ways filmmakers have historically referenced painting to construct mood, symbolism, and narrative, his work investigates how cinematic sensibilities can alter the perception of an image. These visual languages inform his process of image-making, shaping compositions that exist between observation and staging.
Dastaangoi Gallery will be presenting this series of Shamir’s works at Art Dubai 2026 as part of its presentation at the fair.
@artdubai@ohrobella@amadsmian@shamir_iqtidar
Hawazin Alotaibi is a Saudi-American artist whose work explores themes of identity, masculinity, and self-expression in Gulf culture through soft, dreamlike imagery and mixed media. Her paintings often portray intimate and vulnerable figures, moving away from traditional representations of gender in the region. Drawing from social media aesthetics, personal memory, and digital culture, her work creates visuals that feel both nostalgic and contemporary at the same time.
There is a certain intellectual depth to Hussein Chalayan’s work that continues to make it feel relevant far beyond fashion itself. Hussein Chalayan has always felt like the latter to us. The more we studied his collections, the more it became clear that he was never simply designing garments but he was creating conversations around memory, migration, identity, and the relationship between the body and the world around it.
What makes Chalayan’s work so compelling is the way he merges technology with emotion. He is often described as one of fashion’s great conceptual thinkers because his garments exist somewhere between clothing, sculpture, and engineering. He became known for integrating mechanics, architectural structures, unusual textiles, and digital technology into fashion long before it became common in the industry. One of his most iconic moments remains the collection where a wooden coffee table unfolded into a wearable skirt, while chair covers transformed into dresses to express a powerful reflection on displacement and the idea of carrying one’s home through clothing.
Born in Nicosia, Cyprus, to a Turkish Cypriot family, Chalayan later moved to London, where he studied at Central Saint Martins and gradually established himself as one of the most intellectually influential designers of his generation. His background plays an important role in understanding his work. There is a constant sense of movement within his collections, between East and West, tradition and futurism, technology and humanity. Rather than relying on surface-level glamour, Chalayan approached fashion almost like research, using garments to explore political tension, migration, architecture, anthropology, and the changing nature of identity in a modern world.
For the moments that matter 🤍
От момента, когда увидела этот тренд, до записи видео с Алисой - 0.0000001 секунда (с согласия всех участвующих)
Thank you for idea @julieencls
The Quiet Center That Holds a Home Together
A courtyard is not just part of a house, it is what makes the house feel complete. In many homes, it is treated as something essential, almost like a room that cannot be built over or replaced. It is the space that keeps everything balanced, where light can settle, where air can pass through, where the home does not feel cut off from the world outside.
Its design carries that purpose quietly. Rooms are placed around it so that every part of the house stays connected to this open center. It keeps the air moving, softens the heat, and lets the day unfold gently across the walls. There is a calmness to it, a sense that the house is not holding itself too tightly.
And then, as evening comes, the courtyard becomes the place people naturally return to. Chairs are brought out, tea is poured, and time seems to loosen its grip a little. People sit together, sometimes talking, sometimes just watching the sky change. The breeze, the fading light, the small sounds of the evening all seem closer there.
A courtyard shapes not just how a house stands, but how life settles inside it—slowly, quietly, and together.
For our collaboration with Porsche, we set out to capture more than a car, we captured a feeling of the House of Porsche.
An exclusive scent, shaped by the region.
Leather, amber, and saffron. Notes that echo the quiet power of the drive, the warmth of the desert, and the stories that linger long after.
Craft meets motion.
Scent meets memory.
Available exclusively at Paus Club, House of Porsche
