Serenity

18 June - 31 August 2025

JD Malat Gallery Dubai is thrilled to present SERENITY, a group exhibition that brings together eleven international voices in abstraction: lyrical, structural, and gestural. Now on view on the ground floor of JD Malat Gallery Dubai, the exhibition features fifteen paintings that explore visions of stillness, perception, and presence. Across these works, a quiet resonance emerges, as if each canvas were less an image than a pause, a breath, a threshold.
Santiago Parra, Untitled, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 66 1/2 x 66 1/2 in, 169 x 169 cm

Serenity

This group exhibition brings together eleven international voices in abstraction, rather lyrical, structural and gestural such as Zhang Ji, Masayoshi Nojo, Gary Lang, Conrad Jon Godly, Kojo Marfo, Andy Moses, Ed Moses, Santiago Parra, Luis Olaso, Katrin Fridriks and Richard Hudson. Each are offering a singular vision of stillness, perception, and presence. Across fifteen works, a quiet resonance emerges, as if each canvas were less an image than a pause, a breath, a threshold.
Gary Lang, SONNING, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, Diameter: 58 in, Diameter: 147.3 cm

Mediation

From the architectural rigor of Zhang Ji’s minimalist reliefs to the luminous, delicacy of Nojo’s silver-oxidised panels rooted in Japanese Neo-Nihonga, the exhibition opens a dialogue between material and memory. Gary Lang’s hypnotic chromatic spirals invite the eye into meditative immersion, while Conrad Jon Godly’s visceral impastoed summits evoke the sublime through sheer painterly force. Elsewhere, Katrin Fridriks navigates the energetic and the elemental, transforming gesture into vibration, part Abstract Expressionism, part scientific intuition.
(Left) Luis Olaso, Composition for a table with a blue bottle and a flower, 2023, Oil, acrylic, oil bar and oil pastel on canvas, 78 3/4 x 63 in, 200 x 160 cm

(Right) Luis Olaso, Composition for a ceramic vase with sunflowers, 2023, Oil, acrylic, oil bar and oil pastel on canvas

78 3/4 x 63 in, 200 x 160 cm

Symbolic language

Figurative tension finds its place too, in the symbolic visual language of Kojo Marfo, whose portraits fuse Akan heritage with contemporary dislocation. Andy Moses, with iridescent, wave-like surfaces, and his father Ed Moses, through layered experimentations born from West Coast post-minimalist traditions, mirror one another across time and movement. Parra’s instinctive black brushstrokes summon a raw, essential form of Action Painting, while Luis Olaso’s restrained chromatic expenses recall the meditative vastness of Colour Field Painting
Richard Hudson, Tear, 2020, Polished Mirrored Steel, 78 3/4 x 52 1/4 in, 200 x 132.8 cm

Tear

Adding a sculptural voice to this collective, Richard Hudson brings mirror- reflected forms rooted in Contemporary Biomorphism, inviting introspection not only through material but presence itself.
Together, these works form landscape of introspection, a rare equilibrium between silence and expression, pigment and volume, structure and surrender. In the context of overwhelming visual information, with a world in motion and in search of stillness, Serenity offers more than an aesthetic pause: it invites the viewer to inhabit time differently, to see through the surface, and to listen.