Group Exhibition| 10 December 2025 – 31 January 2026
A landmark exhibition uniting thirteen local and international artists in an exploration of illumination, perception, and contemporary expression as the year draws to a close and a new one begins.
JD Malat Gallery Dubai is proud to present Elements of Light, a landmark group exhibition bringing together thirteen distinguished artists whose practices have shaped the gallery’s 2025 programme. Spanning abstraction, figuration, conceptual minimalism, andsculptural form, the exhibition celebrates a year of artistic dialogue, international collaboration, and the diverse visual languages that have animated the gallery’s presence in Dubai.
Elements of Light reflects on illumination in its broadest sense – light as atmosphere, rhythm, memory, perception, and emotional charge. Across painting and sculpture, the works explore how light shapes material and mood: gliding across metal surfaces, expanding through chromatic fields, softening contours, or piercing through gestural marks. From minimalist structures to expressive gestures and luminous horizons, the exhibition forms a constellation of sensibilities that honours the multiplicity of contemporary practice while offering a moment of stillness at the close of the year and a thoughtful opening into the next.
The exhibition features work by Casper Brindle, Foad Hamzeh, Santiago Parra, Katrin Fridriks, Zhang Ji, Masayoshi Nojo, Gary Lang, Conrad Jon Godly, Andy Moses, Ed Moses, RETNA, Richard Hudson, Sophie-Yen Bretez. Though diverse in gesture, geography, and medium, each artist contributes to a shared meditation on how art captures the fleeting, the atmospheric, and the ineffable.
The exhibition’s narrative unfolds through the distinct practices of its artists. Casper Brindle (Canada/USA), a second-generation light and space artist, offers radiant gradients and horizon lines that create serene optical atmospheres. Foad Hamzeh (Lebanon/UAE) blends classical Arabic
calligraphy with contemporary urban expression; he presents Infinite Climb, a mirrored spiral coil that captures and returns light to echo the continual ascent of human growth. Masayoshi Nojo (Japan) works with oxidised silver-foil within Neo-Nihonga traditions, using reflective planes to explore memory, impermanence, and shifting luminosity. RETNA (USA) brings his iconic calligraphic script, transforming language into rhythmic, abstract structures that bridge identity, spirituality, and urban expression. Zhang Ji (China) creates mediative, rhythmic raised surfaces inspired by architectural repetition. The vibrational colour fields of Gary Lang (USA) contrast with Conrad Jon Godly’s (Switzerland) impasto Alpine landscapes that oscillate between raw materiality and sublime presence. Katrin Fridriks (Iceland) contributes dynamic, energy-driven compositions, while Andy Moses (USA) presents iridescent works that shift with movement and light. Ed Moses (USA), a seminal West Coast figure, investigates transparency and structure through layered stains and grids. Santiago Parra (Colombia) contributes urgent black brushstrokes on white, marked by emotional intensity. Sophie-Yen Bretez (Vietnam/France) explores thresholds and memory through symbolic objects that evoke layered temporalities.
Elements of Light is on view at JD Malat Gallery Dubai, Act 2 Tower, Downtown Dubai, from 10 December 2025 to 31 January 2026. For more information visit www.jdmalat.com
