ArtDayME: 421 Arts Campus in Abu Dhabi is hosting the "Network Culture" group exhibition until April 28, 2024.

This exhibition presents projects by participants in the Homebound Residency Program. The program ran from Spring 2020 to Fall 2023. Celebrating the work and explorations that took place over the course of the past three years, "Network Culture" includes projects by 13 participating artists and creative practitioners whose practices have evolved and extended beyond the parameters of the program. 

"Network Culture" is not only a celebration of the work produced during the program but also an acknowledgement of the importance of community in artistic practice. Throughout the program, artists, curators, researchers, and cultural workers came together digitally–due to the program coinciding with a global pandemic–to support one another and provide space for generative conversations, critique, and creative experimentation. The title ‘Network Culture' is also a nod to the historical phenomena we are witnessing today–an increasingly interconnected world that is shaped and influenced by the digital.

Understanding Network Culture allows us to better assess the broader sociocultural structures and trends that shape time and temporality. Network Culture showcases a wide range of media, including photography, text and writing, audio and sound, film and moving image, sculpture and installation, performance lectures and performance documentation, as well as community-activated workshops and events, and community-sourced resources for artists and creative practitioners.

The works featured in this exhibition are by Yara Asmar, Mona Ayyash, BaRiya, Raghvi Bhatia, Nihaal Faizal, Kimia Collective (Chahine Fellahi and Kaïs Aïouch), Batool Desouky and Zain Mahjoub, Engy Mohsen, Roger Mokbel, Fatma Belkıs and Onur Gökmen, Mahshid Rafiei, Ayesha Singh, and Salem Al Suwaidi.

Instrumental to the development of all these works was the community created around them, including each artist's peers, an assigned mentor, and in some cases a residency curator. The 2021/2022 cohort of the residency was supported by curator Reem Shadid. The 2022/2023 cohort was supported by curator Sara Bin Safwan.