Exhibition view of 'Finding My Blue Sky’ at Lisson Gallery, London, 30 May – 26 July 2025 © the artists, Courtesy Lisson Gallery.
Anuar Khalifi and Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian participate in ‘Finding My Blue Sky,’ a group exhibition at Lisson Gallery, London, UK, curated by Dr. Omar Kholeif.
Conceived as a constellation, at once epic and polyglot, personal and searchingly political, ‘Finding My Blue Sky’ features over twenty artists from diverse nationalities and eras, including several making their London debut, alongside twelve new commissions. The show elides biographical and cultural difference in overlapping personal narratives: it is at one level a self-reflexive statement, akin to a diary or memoir, evolving out of Kholeif’s formative interactions and new encounters with artists, and his own diasporic heritage (as the son of Egyptian and Sudanese parents). At another, it invites viewers to participate in the creation of meaning – to dream of their own aesthetic politics. Accordingly, the parallel title in Arabic has a distinct inflection: “What is the World that you Dream of?”
The exhibition runs from 30 May through 26 July 2025.
