The Third Line

The Third Line is pleased to present ‘From the Perspective of Language,’ Sara Naim’s (@saranaim__ ) fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. Please join us for the opening reception! 🕑Opening Reception: 7-10 pm on Wednesday, 4 March 2026 📣Artist Talk at 8:30 pm with Nadine Khalil (@nadine_a_khalil ). On view from 4 March until 7 April 2026 📍The Third Line, Dubai, UAE The exhibition marks the artist’s first public presentation of paintings. Produced intermittently between 2023 and 2026, the large-scale works move between figuration and abstraction to examine boundaries and the limits of representation through arrangements of symbolically charged imagery. The exhibition is accompanied by a new video performance, ‘Mother Practices Her Tongue’ (2026), which abstracts the Arabic language into gestures and sounds that no longer produce coherent meaning. Together, the paintings and video extend Naim’s ongoing investigation into how meaning is constructed through inherited systems such as language, symbols, and ideology. The artist talk will explore Naim’s multidisciplinary practice in relation to the new body of work created for the exhibition. Tap on the link in our bio for more information. –––––––––– #SaraNaim #FromThePerspectiveOfLanguage #TheThirdLine #ContemporaryArt

NOW OPEN: 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (@labiennale ) Swipe right to view our artists’ presentations across the Central Pavilion and multiple National Pavilions. Abbas Akhavan (@abbasakhavan ) Canada Pavilion (@natgallerycan ) ‘Entre chien et loup’ Farah Al Qasimi (@frequentlyaskedquestion ) National Pavilion UAE (@nationalpavilionuae ) ‘Washwasha’ Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige (@studiohadjithomasjoreige ) Central Pavilion ‘In Minor Keys’ Lamya Gargash (@lamya_gargash ) National Pavilion UAE (@nationalpavilionuae ) ‘Washwasha’ Sophia Al-Maria (@sxphix_xl_mxrix ). National Pavilion of Qatar ‘untitled 2026 (a gathering of remarkable people)’ Installation Views: Abbas Akhavan, ‘Entre chien et loup,’ Canada Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, 2026. Photo: Francesco Barasciutti Farah Al Qasimi, ‘Washwasha,’ National Pavilion UAE, La Biennale di Venezia, 2026. Photo: Ismail Noor of Seeing Things. Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, ‘In Minor Keys,’ La Biennale di Venezia, 2026. Lamya Gargash, ‘Washwasha,’ National Pavilion UAE, La Biennale di Venezia, 2026. Photo: Ismail Noor of Seeing Things. Still: Sophia Al-Maria, DAMAR TV, 2026. –––––––––– #LaBiennale #VeniceBiennale #TheThirdLine #ContemporaryArt

Join us on 13 May at 6:30 pm for ‘After Language,’ an informal chat about perception, gesture, symbols, land, and the body. With a mixture of hot-seat questions, philosophical inquiry and audience exchange, Nadine Khalil (@nadine_a_khalil ) and Sara Naim (@saranaim__ ) approach language as something shaped and reconsidered through the body. Register from the link in bio. 💬 6:30 pm 📅 Wednesday, 13 May 2026 📍The Third Line, Dubai, UAE Drawing on Naim’s exhibition ‘From the Perspective of Language,’ the talk considers how images and materials are situated. Working across photography, painting, and mediated image-making, Naim fractures the image - removing it from context to question its function. This is an invitation to slow down, shift perspective, and reflect on the evolving landscape of media. Design: Raad Haidar, Leisure Land (@leisureland.ae ) –––––––––– #SaraNaim #TheThirdLine #AlserkalAvenue #ContemporaryArt

Films by Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige (@studiohadjithomasjoreige ), ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ (2013) and ‘Palimpsests’ (2017), are featured in ‘The Waves Crashing,’ VIMA’s (@vima.artfair ) Film Programme curated by Kostas Stasinopoulos (@kostasstas ). Film Programme: 15 - 17 May 2026 Special Screening: 16 May 2026 at Rialto Theatre, Limassol ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ is a film developed in response to Constantine P. Cavafy’s poem of the same title. Reflecting on shared ties to the Middle East, the work unfolds through panoramic views of Beirut that shift between movement and stillness, as well as between sweeping perspectives and intimate detail. Through subtly animated photography, the film creates a disquieting sense of time as both suspended and in motion, evoking a broader atmosphere of instability and uncertainty. ‘Palimpsests’ examines archaeological and geological processes to uncover layers of urban history beneath the ground, presenting time as a dense accumulation of overlapping eras. Through a montage of drone and microscopic imagery, shifting scales, and varied rhythms, Hadjithomas & Joreige create a fragmented yet continuous view of time, where destruction and renewal intersect across past and present. Stills: Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Palimpsests, 2017 / Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Waiting for the Barbarians, 2013. Tap on the link in our bio for more information. –––––––––– #VIMA #JoanaHadjithomasKhalilJoreige #TheThirdLine #ArtFair #FilmScreening

VIMA (@vima.artfair ) is now open to the public! Come find us at Booth C3 – swipe through for a look at our installation. On view until 17 May 2025 📍Limassol, Cyprus The Third Line presents a solo presentation of new paintings by Sarah Awad (@saraheawad ). The works extend the artist’s distinctive painterly language that layers vivid hues rendered in bold, free-flowing forms and confident brushstrokes. In parallel, ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ (2013) and ‘Palimpsests’ (2017) by Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige (@studiohadjithomasjoreige ) will be featured in ‘The Waves Crashing,’ the film program of VIMA 2026, curated by Kostas Stasinopoulos (@kostasstas ). Tap on the link in our bio for more information. –––––––––– #VIMA #SarahAwad #JoanaHadjithomasKhalilJoreige #TheThirdLine #ArtFair

Art Dubai (@artdubai ) is now open to the public! Come find us at Booth C7 — swipe through for a look at our installation. On view until 17 May 2026 📍 Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, UAE The Third Line presents a dynamic body of works by Farah Al Qasimi (@frequentlyaskedquestion ), Sara Naim (@saranaim__ ), and Vian Sora (@viansora ) at Art Dubai Special Edition. Spanning photography, sculpture, and painting, the presentation asks what different mediums can reveal about power, land, and the weight of lived experience. Where Al Qasimi’s photographs of interiors, objects, and non-human life draw out the structures of power and relation embedded in everyday moments, Naim’s Tender Grain series extends photography into sculptural form—drawing on flora reliefs from Assyrian monuments to examine how plant life transgresses borders and reframes our relationship to land. Sora’s gestural painting deepens the inquiry, its luminous, layered surface holding the residue of memory and displacement in gesture. Image: The Third Line at Art Dubai Special Edition, 2026. Photography by Ismail Noor, Seeing Things (@weareseeingthings ). –––––––––– #ArtDubai #FarahAlQasimi #SaraNaim #VianSora #ContemporaryArt

#OpeningSoon Slavs and Tatars (@slavsandtatars ) participates in ‘SKYground,’ the 7th Mardin Biennial (@mardinbiennial ), curated by Çelenk Bafra (@celenkbafra ). On view from 15 May until 21 June 2026 📍Mardin, Türkiye ‘SKYground’ traces a line between sky and ground, the material and the spiritual, the political and the poetic, and the collective and the individual, opening a quiet passage between worlds often assumed to be distant from one another. The biennial unfolds across exhibitions, site-specific installations, and performances throughout the city, guided by birds—figures deeply embedded in Mardin’s natural environment and cultural memory. Drawing on two literary touchstones from the western and eastern traditions of Türkiye, Aristophanes’ “The Birds” and Ferîdüddîn Attâr’s “Mantiku’t-Tayr” (The Conference of the Birds), the biennial casts the bird as a metaphor for freedom, migration, resistance, and transformation, reimagined by participating artists across painting, sculpture, video, performance, photography, sound, and site-specific work. Tap on the link in bio for more information. –––––––––– #SlavsAndTatars #MardinBiennial #ContemporaryArt

🗓️ Reminder to join us tomorrow for an artist talk with Sara Naim (@saranaim__ ) and Nadine Khalil (@nadine_a_khalil ) at 6:30 PM at the gallery. Register via the link in bio 🔗 #ArtworkSpotlight ‘Mother Practices Her Tongue’ (2026) by Naim explores how language shapes relationships to place, and the roles intuition and gesture play alongside the formal logic of language. Continuing the minimal aesthetic of Naim’s earlier video performances, the work features Naim framed like a photographic portrait. She practices forming Arabic letters and sounds with her mouth, addressing the camera directly. Repeated out of sequence and in isolated units, these letters dissolve into abstract, guttural sounds, losing semantic clarity while retaining affect. Repetition operates as disruption—a glitch in communication—exposing language as a symbolic system onto which meaning is imposed rather than inherently contained. The video considers language as a bodily, sonic, and symbolic system that, like the painted images in Gallery 1, becomes an interface through which experience is mediated. The work is on view at the artist’s solo exhibition, ‘From the Perspective of Language,’ at the gallery. On view until 31 May 2026 📍The Third Line, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE Tap on the link in our bio for more information. –––––––––– #SaraNaim #TheThirdLine #AlserkalAvenue #ContemporaryArt

The Third Line is pleased to participate in the second edition of VIMA (@vima.artfair ) with a solo presentation of new paintings by Sarah Awad (@saraheawad ). The works extend the artist’s distinctive painterly language that layers vivid hues rendered in bold, free-flowing forms and confident brushstrokes. 📅Preview: 14 May | Public Dates: 15 - 17 May 2026 📍Limassol, Cyprus In parallel, ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ (2013) and ‘Palimpsests’ (2017) by Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige (@studiohadjithomasjoreige ) will be featured in ‘The Waves Crashing,’ the fair’s film program, curated by Kostas Stasinopoulos (@kostasstas ). Tap on the link in our bio for more information. –––––––––– #TheThirdLine #VIMA #ArtFair #ContemporaryArt

The Third Line is delighted to participate in Art Dubai Special Edition (@artdubai ) with a dynamic body of works by Farah Al Qasimi (@frequentlyaskedquestion ), Sara Naim (@saranaim__ ), and Vian Sora (@viansora ). 📅Preview: 14 May | Public Dates: 15 - 17 May 2026 📍Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, UAE Spanning photography, sculpture, and painting, the presentation asks what different mediums can reveal about power, land, and the weight of lived experience. Where Al Qasimi’s photographs of interiors, objects, and non-human life draw out the structures of power and relation embedded in everyday moments, Naim’s ‘Tender Grain’ series extends photography into sculptural form—drawing on flora reliefs from Assyrian monuments to examine how plant life transgresses borders and reframes our relationship to land. Sora’s gestural painting deepens the inquiry, its luminous, layered surface holding the residue of memory and displacement in gesture. Tap on the link in our bio for more information. –––––––––– #TheThirdLine #ArtDubai #ArtFair #ContemporaryArt #Dubai

#ClosingSoon Farah Al Qasimi (@frequentlyaskedquestion ) at ‘What’s between, between?’, a group exhibition at Media Majlis Museum (@mediamajlismuseum ) curated by Jack Thomas Taylor (@bintaylor ) and Amal Zeyad Ali (@amalgam8or ). On view until 14 May 2026 📍Media Majlis Museum, Doha, Qatar The exhibition offers audiences the chance to examine the meanings of “Gulf Futurism,” looking at the histories, dreaming, futures, and the Gulf region as a contested field shaped by rapid transformation, speculative imagination, and lived experience across the region, moving beyond singular narratives toward complex, in-between realities. Through loaned works, new commissions, and digital media, it examines the tensions between tradition and hyper-modernity, heritage and innovation, human and machine. Image: Farah Al Qasimi, Um Al Dhabaab (Mother of Fog), 2022, Two-channel video, 29’ 45’’. (Still) Installation view: Courtesy of Media Majlis Museum. Tap on the link in our bio for more information. –––––––––– #FarahAlQasimi #MediaMajlisMuseum #Photography #ContemporaryArt

Slavs and Tatars (@slavsandtatars ) #OnView at ‘Tirailleurs: Trials and Tribulations’ a group exhibition at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (@hkw_berlin ). On view until 14 June 2026 📍Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Marking the 80th anniversary of the Allied liberation of France and Europe, HKW’s 2026 exhibition turns to a marginalized chapter of that history: the role of the Tirailleurs—African soldiers who made up the majority of the 250,000-strong B Army, alongside others from Asia, the Americas, and Oceania. Bringing together more than thirty international artists, fourteen new commissions, archival materials, and a film programme, the exhibition reflects on parallel histories of exploitation and the enduring relevance of the Tirailleurs today. Installation view courtesy of Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Photography by Hanna Wiedemann. Artwork Imges: Slavs and Tatars, Reverse Dschihad (Russian) / Reverse Dschihad (Urdu), 2015. Tap on the link in bio for more information. –––––––––– #SlavsAndTatars #HKW #HausDerKulturenDerWelt #ContemporaryArt