Taymour Grahne Projects opens Dubai space with Gail Spaien's solo exhibition

Taymour Grahne Projects, the Londonbased project space and art advisory, opened its Dubai space at Alserkal Avenue on September 18. Founded in 2013 by art dealer Taymour Grahne, Taymour Grahne Projects has previously had spaces in New York and also in London, as well as nomadic programming. The inaugural hosts Gail Spaien's Arranging Flowers solo exhibition. Based in Maine, USA, Spaien (b.1958) has exhibited widely across the United States for over three decades. Her practice explores painting as a site of emotional exchange, where decorative elements, floral arrangements and flattened perspective, quietly disrupt domestic and pictorial conventions.

- Muhammad Yusuf, Features Writer

The works in Arranging Flowers create a disarming interplay between interior and exterior worlds. Windows, tables, and vases full of flowers form loose choruses of colour and texture, leading the viewer's eye across thresholds where the natural world coexists with carefully arranged domesticity. Spaien's compositions draw resonance from ikebana, the ancient Japanese art of flower arrangement, which harmonises natural forms with the spatial environment around them.