The Infrared Journey

Pioneering: The Museum of the Future, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate

2023

Pioneering: The Museum of the Future, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate

Pioneering: The Museum of the Future, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate

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Adapted from the artist’s archive.

Dubai’s Museum of the Future rises in flowing curves marked by Arabic calligraphy. Photographed from a moving vehicle, the building appears through a fleeting alignment of structure, light and perspective. Infrared colour shifts the palms towards magenta against a cool blue sky.

The architecture’s image of futurity meets a photographic process that makes the familiar colour spectrum unfamiliar. The work brings two forms of transformation together: a building that gives shape to an idea of the future, and a way of seeing that changes the appearance of the present.

Format and edition details from the archive

Signed, titled and numbered, with a certificate

Available in three sizes: | 40 × 60 cm, Edition 7 + 2 AP | 82 × 124 cm, Edition 5 + 2 AP | 111 × 167 cm, Edition 3 + 2 AP

Year: 2023

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