Shireen Taweel: 5364 nocturne

Over recent weeks, the Gallery’s exhibition team has been busy installing Shireen Taweel: 5364 nocturne, which opens on Saturday 5 October. Bringing together a new body of work, including moving image, navigational devices and copper engraved prints, this exhibition continues Taweel’s research enquiry into the influence of the celestial navigation technologies of Arab astronomy on the future movement of people through migration and pilgrimage. As part of 5364 nocturne, Taweel and the Gallery have produced a beautiful and richly illustrated publication that contains an in-depth interview with the artist, offering many insights into Taweel’s multi-disciplinary research-led art practice.
 
“My initial enquiry into celestial navigation was purely a curiosity about mapping and migration from my position as a first-generation migrant in Sydney. I had not anticipated how it would take me into a deeper understanding of Arab astronomy and how that is very much embedded in the sciences that function around our world today…”
 
If you would like to read more, come in and see the exhibition and grab your FREE copy.

Please join us at 11am on Saturday 5 October, for an artist talk with Shireen Taweel, where she will speak about her time on residency in Aotearoa and the exhibition.
 
Shireen Taweel: 5364 nocturne runs from 5 October 2024 – 2 March 2025.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery Visiting Artist Programme, supported by Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa.


Noho ora mai
Lauren Gutsell
Kairauhī Curator
Dunedin Public Art Gallery

[above: Shireen Taweel Southern celestial quadrant 2024. Hand pierced, engraved copper, silver solder. Photograph by Garry Trinh. below: The publication produced in association with 5364 nocturne – available for free in the exhibition]