This summer, Taymour Grahne Projects invites audiences into a trio of online exhibitions, each unfolding in distinct visual registers: Anchored to Distant Shadows by Camille Zakharia, Garden of Memories, Palace of Colors by Latifa Alajlan, and Black and White, a group show curated by Matthew F Fisher. Together, the shows offer reflections on displacement, memory, colour, and form, reminding us that digital space, too, can be a site of resonance and experimentation.
Garden of Memories, Palace of Colors – curated by Nathalie Baume
Latifa Alajlan’s Garden of Memories, Palace of Colors is a sensorial study in surface, pigment, and geometry. Rooted in Islamic abstraction yet untethered from didactic religious forms, the works layer lattice motifs, bold chromatic gestures, and palimpsestic inscriptions to evoke a richly tactile spiritual world. Painting on linen and canvas, Alajlan etches with brushes, fingers, and colour laid on glass, allowing texture to exceed pure visuality. Beneath the paint, traces of English and Kuwaiti Arabic writing remain hidden, haunting the surface as memory does the body. These works reflect a contemporary condition of post-hybridity: errant, entangled, and deeply felt.
Showing from 24 June until 24 July 2025
Anchored to Distant Shadows
In Anchored to Distant Shadows, Camille Zakharia presents fifteen photomontages that operate as both personal cartographies and meditations on migration. The works layer architectural fragments, subtle textures, and imagined topographies to evoke the psychic terrain of displacement, spaces where memory clings to ruin and structure alike. Zakharia’s monochrome compositions, printed on Hahnemühle fine art paper, carry the patina of time and the emotional charge of absence. Doorways, arches, and scaffolding repeat like refrains, anchoring these dreamlike constructs. Assembled between 2024 and 2025, the series offers a quiet resistance to spectacle, favouring slowness, ambiguity, and the lingering pull of distant homes.
Showing from 1 July until 1 August 2025
Black and White – curated by Matthew F Fisher
Curated by Matthew F Fisher, Black and White gathers twelve artists exploring the power of monochrome in a saturated world. With contributions from Matt Leines, Amy Pleasant, Christopher Dunlap, and others, the exhibition strips colour away to heighten the specificity of form, gesture, and personal vocabulary. Some artists, like Rob Matthews, have long embraced black and white; others, known for their colour work, offer rare chroma-less interventions. Across these pieces – graphic, painterly, disciplined – the show resists nostalgia and instead honours mark-making, negative space, and the radical restraint of greyscale. In a hyper-coloured age, Black and White asserts clarity through reduction.
Showing from 15 July until 15 August 2025
