Installation View, Sara Naim, From the Perspective of Language, 2025, The Third Line, Dubai. Photo by Ismail Noor.
Sara Naim does not see images as neutral. Nor does she treat language as a stable system. In her latest exhibition at The Third Line gallery in Dubai, the London-based artist of Syrian origin pulls both apart, exposing the fragile structures that shape how we understand the world.
From the Perspective of Language presents a body of work created between 2023 and 2026, marking Naim's first public showing of these paintings. The exhibition moves between figuration and abstraction, extending a practice that has long spanned photography, video and sculpture. At its core is a persistent question: how is meaning constructed? And what happens when those systems begin to break down?
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