Prime Highlights:
- Dubai-born artist Fathima Mohiuddin showcases her large-scale installation “The World Out There” at Ishara Art Foundation’s summer exhibition “No Trespassing.”
- She brings the raw energy of street art into the gallery space, experimenting with unconventional tools like brooms for the first time.
Key Highlights:
- The exhibition “No Trespassing” at Ishara Art Foundation runs until August 30, 2025, featuring six artists exploring boundaries through art.
- Initially planning smaller works on reclaimed materials, Mohiuddin shifted to a larger installation with guidance from curator Priyanka Mehra.
Key Background:
Dubai-born artist Fathima Mohiuddin, widely recognized by her street art moniker Fatspatrol, is one of six featured artists in “No Trespassing,” a summer exhibition currently on view at the Ishara Art Foundation in Dubai.
Exhibition is available until August 30. The show explores themes of boundaries, cultural, and institutional, through the lens of street art aesthetics reframed within a gallery setting.
Mohiuddin shared that she is not usually a gallery-based artist, as most of her career has been based on street art, a space that has always felt more natural and comfortable to her.
Her featured installation, “The World Out There,” reflects her identity. She said that boundaries and limitations have shaped not only her art but also her journey. Her creations focus on mark-making as a way of declaring her presence — a statement that she existed, was unique in a world that often resisted her, and that her presence had significance.
Initially, considering smaller works on objects like road signs and license plates, Mohiuddin altered her method as soon as she felt that the works were not overshadowing the space present in the gallery. With encouragement from curator Priyanka Mehra, she embraced a larger scale, using unconventional tools. She explained that she had shared with Priyanka her desire to add texture and her plan to experiment by painting with brooms.
The result is a dynamic stratified installation that brings to the gallery the brute strength of the street. “It felt liberating to create without limitations or expectations, and for the first time, I incorporated brooms into the mark-making process,” she said.
Through this bold experiment, Mohiuddin hopes to elicit what she calls “a raw humanness”. She added that she aims to evoke a genuine human reaction from viewers.
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